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Whatever Happened to the 150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Stored Under the Atlantic Ocean?

Whatever Happened to the 150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Stored Under the Atlantic Ocean?
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More than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste were stored on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean between 1949 and 1982, reports ScienceAlert. Whatever happened to those barrels? Scientists have descended to the wreckage in a crewed submersible to investigate — and found many of the barrels corroded and degraded, their contents spilling across the seafloor. Surprisingly, this isn't necessarily a subversion of the original plan... The International Atomic Energy Agency recommends that l

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