The international group of scientists discovered more than a thousand nuclear barrels in the north -east of the Atlantic Ocean.
According to the representative of the French CNRS research organization, the expedition began in June from the port of Brest on the L’Alalte ship. The goal is to find out in what condition nuclear garbage fell into the sea and how it affects the environment.
The burial zone has 21 research. Scientists plan to make a detailed map of the location of the barrels found and take samples of water, sea bottom and organisms. They help them Autonomous Ulyx underwater robot equipped with a three -dimensional camera and a system of echolocation.
The divergence of radioactive waste into the ocean has been practiced from the 1950s until the beginning of the 1990s. Prior to the ban on 1993, the depth of the ocean was a safe place to dispose of dangerous materials. This was especially actively in areas where the bottom was considered geologically stable and remote from the coast. In the north -eastern part of the Atlantic, it can be assessed that experts make up up to 200 thousand barrels at a depth of three to five thousand meters.
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This is still not known where all these containers are located and in what condition they are. Some may lie alone, others in heaps. Researchers hope that the results of their expedition will help you understand how high the risk of leakage of radioactive substances is.
Source: Racurs
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