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Over 110,000 containers of nuclear waste dumped in ocean by USA

Where’s All the Nuclear Waste We Dumped in the Ocean? WALL STREET JOURNAL RAISES QUESTIONS DECADES LATER By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff  Jan 5, 2014 – The US dumped vast quantities of nuclear material off its coasts between 1946 and 1970—more than 110,000 containers, says one official count. Today, the whereabouts of many of those 55-gallon drums and other containers is a big question mark, the Wall Street Journalreports. “Many were not dropped on target,” according to a 2010 federal report. Their location is just one of several major questions raised by the Journal. It’s also unclear, for instance, how many dump sites there were: Government reports have given numbers ranging from 29 to 60. Then there’s the question of how much radioactivity persists, since some isotopes can stay radioactive for thousands of years……http://www.newser.com/story/180117/wheres-all-the-nuclear-waste-we-dumped-in-the-ocean.html

January 7, 2014 - Posted by | general

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