Japan has announced plans to dump 920,000 tons of deadly Fukushima nuclear waste into the Pacific ocean, saying that they can no longer contain the waste on land.

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different ...

More than four decades after the U.S. halted a controversial ocean dumping program, the country still has few answers on how to handle atomic waste it pitched in the sea.

Dumping radioactive waste into the world's seas began in 1946 with a scientific argument whose foundation was the vastness of the oceans. "It was no stretch (for officials) to assume that, like ...

As it happens, nuclear powers of the world regularly dump nuclear waste into the ocean in violation of the London Convention (1972) and the London Protocol (1996), which are the two principal ...

Nuclear energy creates a problem no one has yet solved. Japan is dumping toxic water into the ocean. Canada proposes storing waste near Lake Huron.

An international effort aims to assess the environmental impact of nuclear waste dumped in the ocean over half a century ago. María Dávila. Update: May 30th, 2025 21:44 EDT. facebook.

Japan is dumping millions of tons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean. That’s not a bad thing. Here’s the rundown: In 2011, the fourth most powerful earthquake ever recorded rocked Japan. The ...

A new study on the effects of waste dumping in the ocean between Los Angeles and Catalina Island found that barrels dumped decades ago could contain radioactive material.

Paris, June 27 (BNA): The National Centre for Scientific Research of France (CNRS) announced a concerning discovery, revealing that an international research team has found more than 1,000 nuclear ...

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