Between 1946 and 1993, 14 countries in Europe dumped more than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste in the northeast Atlantic ⸺ a practice banned in the 1990s. These tens of thousands of metric tonnes of waste contain an enormous amount of radioactivity, officially 85,000 terabecquerels (1 trillion becquerels) of radiation. The asphalt and cement barrels … Continue reading Diving for Half-Century-Old Radioactive Waste Barrels in the Depths of the North Atlantic