Radioactive Danger in Galicia: Find a Thousand Drums and Warn of Another 200,000 on the Seabed

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A few hundred kilometers from the coast of Galicia, known as the Atlantic Fossa, more than 140,000 tons of nuclear waste were deposited for decades in just over 220,000 radioactive drums. Between 1949 and 1982, eight countries poured their radioactive waste there: Holland, France, Britain, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Sweden, making it a large nuclear cemetery. Until Greenpeace asked Galicia for help.

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The Galician seabed is facing a serious environmental threat: more than a thousand drums have been found with waste and up to 200,000 more are being alerted to the possible existence, which could pose a radioactive risk to the safety of people and the ecosystem.A discovery that puts a new focus on the need to monitor what remains hidden under the waters.For years, the sea has been used as an uncontrolled landfill, and now the consequences are be…

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The NOSSDUM mission, which was in search of submerged radioactive drums between the 1960s and 1990, has just returned to Brest with striking images, and a whole set of samples to be analysed. Objective: to better understand the environmental impact of this practice, which would have lasted several decades. After three weeks at sea, the 21 scientists of the NOSSDUM scientific mission have just returned to shore. Left on 15 June, they had the task…