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Judge set to decide whether New York can dispose of atomic waste in metro Detroit - WDET 101.9 FM
A judge is set to decide whether low-level radioactive material left over from the creation of the first atomic bomb can find its forever home in a metro Detroit landfill.The state of New York wants to send about 6,000 cubic yards of tainted soil and 4,000 gallons of contaminated groundwater to a waste disposal site near Belleville, Michigan.It’s one of a handful in the country licensed to dispose of such waste.Communities near the site, includi…
Decades of decades, the states tipped their nuclear waste carelessly into the Atlantic. But the barrels corrode faster than expected. Where exactly the radiant waste lies is unclear. A research team is on the lookout.
The French oceanographic vessel L’Atalante recently arrived in the area of discharge of radioactive drums intended to be inspected. After carrying out technical tests to check the condition of the equipment, especially the operation of the Uly X submarine robot, the French scientific mission named Nodssum began operations to locate and map the drums thrown in this area of the north-east Atlantic, about a thousand kilometers from the Galician coa…
Berliner Morgenpost
wr.deThe toxic waste has been dumped into the Atlantic for decades. Researchers are now looking for at least 200,000 barrels.
Tagesschau
translate.googFor decades, states simply disposed of nuclear waste in the Atlantic. Scientists have now located the first of presumably hundreds of thousands of barrels on the sea floor. Little is known about their condition.
Between the 1950s and 1980s, several states "disposed their nuclear waste in the ocean.
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