More than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste have lain scattered across the Atlantic Ocean for nearly 50 years, a relic of an era when dumping nuclear materials at sea was considered safe. Between 1946 and 1990, European countries, including France and the UK, dumped barrels filled with radioactive materials, sealed in asphalt and concrete.
Today, these barrels rest thousands of feet below the surface, in trenches about 13,000 feet deep and hundreds of miles offshore from France. Scientists have warned that the waste could enter the marine food chain and be absorbed by sea life.
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