150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped in The Atlantic. Decades Later, It's Visibly Oozing. - ScienceAlert

9/22/2026

150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped in The Atlantic. Decades Later, It's Visibly Oozing.  ScienceAlertBetween 1946 and 1970, the United States dumped roughly 47,800 containers of radioactive waste into the ocean west of San Francisco — many missed the designated sites, and the drums now lie scattered across about 1,400 square kilometers of seafloor,  Space DailyScientists Discover Leaking Radioactive Waste Containers in Atlantic Ocean  SuaraGarut.IDFrom 1946 to 1993, the UK, France, Switzerland and others dumped 200,000 radioactive waste barrels in the  The Economic TimesBetween 1946 and 1993 European countries dumped an estimated 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste into the northeast Atlantic, most of it in water kilometres deep. Ocean dumping was banned in 1993, and surveys are only now going down to find out what  Space Daily...

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