Space Daily September 20, 2026 • 16:45

Between 1946 and 1970, the United States dumped roughly 47,800 containers of radioactive waste into the ocean west of San Francisco — many missed the designated sites, and the drums now lie scattered across about 1,400 square kilometers of seafloor, - Space Daily

Between 1946 and 1970, the United States dumped roughly 47,800 containers of radioactive waste into the ocean west of San Francisco — many missed the designated sites, and the drums now lie scattered across about 1,400 square kilometers of seafloor, - Space Daily

Nobody expected the barrels to last.

Nobody expected the barrels to last.
That was no secret. Steel drums of laboratory waste, weighted with concrete and tipped off the stern of a ship twenty-five to sixty miles west of San Francisco, … [+5935 chars]

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