200K Barrels of Radioactive Waste Are Leaking in the Atlantic
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Radioactive waste is leaking from several barrels that have been sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.
Sawalev's decades ago, the disposal of radioactive waste was a problem that countries were looking for a way to deal with. At that time, the depth of the ocean seemed to provide a simple solution, namely, to keep these materials off the land and sink them into the seabed, where it was believed that the depth of the water and the isolation of the site would prevent them from reaching humans and the environment.
Can we really get rid of radioactive waste by throwing them at the bottom of the ocean? It's exactly the bet that several countries, including France, have made for four decades. Nearly 4,700 meters below the surface of the North-East Atlantic, 200,000 rusty barrels have been resting since that time when it was thought that the marine vastness would suffice [...]
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