US EditionMore than 2,000 Nuclear Waste Cans Are Found Off the Coast of Galicia
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The waters of the Atlantic Ocean, some 600 kilometers from the Galician coast, hide a toxic landfill that could count on more than 200,000 drums of radioactive waste dumped between the 1940s and 1980s by several European countries. For the first time, an international scientific mission is working to locate and study the impact of these discharges on the marine ecosystem, having already found more than 2,000 barrels. The operation, called NODSSU…
Hundreds of thousands of barrels of nuclear waste were sunk in the Atlantic Ocean decades ago. Researchers suspect that they release radioactivity and take samples from their surroundings. 1800 barrels have already been located.
Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 2 Jul (EFE).- The waters of the Atlantic, 600 kilometers from the Galician coast (north of Spain) hide a landfill with more than 200,000 drums of radioactive waste dumped during almost four decades that now studies a French scientific mission mapping the seabed, and that has already located more than 2,000 barrels. The existence of these drums, thrown by several European countries between the decades of the forty-…
A discrete Franco-Armenian agreement is now the subject of intense international controversy. At the heart of the affair: shipments of French radioactive waste, allegedly transferred in secret to an ecologically sensitive region of Armenia. A scandal that mixes geopolitical, nuclear and accusations of "green colonialism", and which could well have dramatic consequences for an entire region. [...]
Several countries sought waste from the nuclear industry at depths of between 3,000 and 5,000 meters in the North Atlantic. Now an international research team has found some of the kisses, says a spokesman for the French research institute CNRS. It is estimated that about 200,000 boxes of nuclear waste from the 1950s were sunk into the sea until a ban was imposed in 1993. The researchers have not said whether the boxes they have found were scatt…
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