Researchers Find 1,000+ Nuclear Waste Drums in Atlantic: A Ticking Time Bomb?
An expedition has located over 1,000 barrels of nuclear waste in the northeast Atlantic, as announced by a French research organization. This international team, aboard the ship “L’Atalante,” is searching for waste disposed of between the 1950s and 1980s when hundreds of thousands of barrels were dumped in the ocean. The researchers aim to map the location of the barrels and assess their impact on the local ecosystem by collecting samples using tools like an autonomous diving robot. The team hopes to determine the extent of any potential radioactivity leakage from the drums, which were not designed to contain radioactivity for long periods.
John Q. Hosedrinker