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Researchers using advanced underwater camera find radioactive waste dumped off coast: 'The more we look, the more we find'
20 May 2024 08:06 GMT
… recipients of military explosives, radioactive waste, and toxic refinery byproducts … .
Why is marine radioactive waste so concerning?
Broadly speaking … The problem with the oceans as a dumping solution … Buesseler of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the …
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IAEA Nuclear Knowledge Management School Expands to Oceania
23 May 2024 10:59 GMT
Amid growing global interest in nuclear energy, the IAEA is ramping up its capacity building support in 2024 and kicked things off by organizing the first-ever Nuclear Knowledge Management (NKM) school in Australia, hosted by the University of Adelaide’s …
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Here's where Upstate Congressional candidates stand on climate change
07 Jun 2024 13:14 GMT
… decade, according to the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Scientists … atmosphere, though it can produce radioactive waste after generation. Nuclear power involves …
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Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground – podcast
05 Apr 2024 04:04 GMT
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Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground
12 Mar 2024 05:17 GMT
The deep has long been treated as somehow separate from the surface world, a shadowy non-place populated by alien creatures. While this is partly a response to the difficulty of studying it, it also reflects an ingrained tendency. As the writer Robert …
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Toxic chemicals, radioactive waste, found in ocean water off the coast of California
25 Feb 2024 07:30 GMT
… , people routinely dumped radioactive waste in the oceans rather than in landfills … dumping radioactive waste into ocean waters, it still occurs, with low-level radioactive waste dumped … into the ocean by nuclear power …
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Experts Alarmed by Barrels of Radioactive Waste Off the Coast of LA
24 Feb 2024 15:13 GMT
… chemicals but low-level radioactive waste, The LA Times … California Salvage, also dumped radioactive waste.
Whether this was legally … for disposing of the radioactive waste, but in separate … radioactive waste had been dumped on the US end of the Pacific Ocean …
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Expert fears flooded radioactive dump sites could leak to river system that flows into Arctic Ocean
15 Apr 2024 17:03 GMT
… challenging are the liquid radioactive waste, both on the surface … named Ulitsa Beria.
Arctic Ocean
A major concern … possible overflowed radioactive waste site could reach the Arctic Ocean.
Tom … 1948-56, liquid radioactive waste from the Mayan reprocessing …
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Adding Insult to Injury: Radioactive Waste and DDT Rub Elbows off Coast of Los Angeles
23 Feb 2024 06:09 GMT
… full of low-level radioactive waste.
Records show that many … to dispose of radioactive waste in the ocean. Although Cal Salvage … defunct company advertised its radioactive waste disposal services and led … throw some pearls of radioactive waste on top of that,” …
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Not Just Toxics: Radioactive Waste Was Also Dumped Off Los Angeles Coast
22 Feb 2024 22:33 GMT
… was poured straight into the ocean instead.)
Now, as … reckoning with the legacy of ocean dumping in Southern California, … may actually contain low-level radioactive waste. Records show that from … have potential low-level radioactive waste just sitting there on …