Radioactive Waste on the Ocean Floor – How Scientists Are Studying the Threat

For decades, the northeastern Atlantic seabed has been a silent witness to human activity. Hundreds of thousands of barrels of radioactive waste, dumped by nuclear-capable countries between 1950 and 1990, have become a major challenge for today’s scientists and international organizations. The recently completed interdisciplinary research mission under Project NODSSUM has shed new light on the scale and potential consequences of…...