Deep-sea radioactive waste mystery: Scientists begin hunt for 200,000 nuclear barrels dumped in the Atlantic Ocean |
Four kilometres beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, beyond the reach of sunlight and far from shipping lanes, lies a forgotten chapter of the nuclear age.Scattered across a vast stretch of seabed are more than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste. They were lowered into the ocean over several decades during the second half of…