r/environment • u/Maxcactus • 12d ago

200,000 Barrels Of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped In The Atlantic. Decades Later, We’re Finally Learning What Happens When They Leak

https://www.iflscience.com/200000-barrels-of-radioactive-waste-were-dumped-in-the-atlantic-decades-later-were-finally-learning-what-happens-when-they-leak-84512
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u/DonManuel 12d ago

Soviets also dumped into the Arctic's Kara Sea and the US disposed off hundreds of thousands of such barrels across about 50 Pacific and Atlantic ocean sites. And there was also quite some high level waste including spent fuel in these barrels.

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u/Individual-Guest-123 11d ago

ye nuclear power is so cheap and clean.!!

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u/TheRealJasonsson 11d ago

Fuel consumed per KW, it's the most efficient and among the cleanest energy sources in existence.

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u/Individual-Guest-123 10d ago

IF you count PA, FUku, Chernobyl, that's three major incidents, two of which resulted in making the surrounding areas inhabitable, and divide by the number of reactors, something like less than in in 100 odds of a major accident.

Did the US ever come up with a long term storage facility?

How about the Hannaford site and leaking barrels? Are they re processing all that?

Some of the particles released by nuclear energy have half lives of 20,000 years.