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


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 ...

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