US EditionA French Expedition Geolocalizes More than 1,800 Radioactive Drums Off the Coast of Galicia After Finding 600 More
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The French oceanographic expedition that aims to evaluate the state of the Atlantic Fossa off the coast of Galicia located more than 600 radioactive drums,...
France examines hundreds of thousands of tons deposited 650 kilometers from the coast and which triggered an environmental explosion in the 1980s.
The PPdeG MEPs have questioned the European Commission (EC) about the nuclear radioactive waste found by a French expedition north-west of the Galician coasts and asked if it knows discharges that could have increased the levels of radioactivity in the waters. Francisco Millán Mon and Adrián Vázquez Lázara have put forward a parliamentary question to the EC, following the latest news on the expedition of the French oceanographic vessel L’Atalant…
There are more than 74,500 tons of radioactive waste that the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland would have dumped into the Atlantic trench over four decades.
Socialist MEP Nicolás González Casares sent a letter to the European Commission regarding the mission led by the French CNRS to analyze the state of the thousands of drums of radioactive waste dumped in the Atlantic pit, "as well as its possible impact on the environment".
France Identifies a Thousand Radioactive Drums in Front of Galicia 43 Years After the Last Discharge
The French oceanographic vessel L'Atalante has just identified the first thousand barrels of radioactive waste off the Galician coast. After arriving in one of the areas identified a week ago and after various technical tests — fundamentally the operation of the Uly X submarine robot, capable of descending to 6,000 meters — this scientific mission, called Nodssum, also extracted fauna and sediments from the area where, between 1949 and 1982, som…
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