OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — A photo of a barrel with a "radioactive material" label on it reportedly found in a river flooding debris pile in Asheville, North Carolina caused some concern on social media this ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Authorities in Niger, one of the world's top producers of uranium, are sounding the alarm after inspectors ...
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Radioactive time bomb lurks in Atlantic as 200,000 toxic barrels threaten to poison millions
More than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste have lain scattered across the Atlantic Ocean for nearly 50 years, a relic of an era when dumping nuclear materials at sea was considered safe. Between ...
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European nations dumped 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste in the ocean, and humans might soon pay the price
A team of scientists has found 3,355 barrels of radioactive waste at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The discovery was made at a depth of 13,000 feet, and hundreds of miles offshore from France.
In this April 9, 2019, file photo, barrels of radioactive waste are loaded for transport to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, marking the first transuranic waste loading operations in five years at the ...
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