Thousands of decaying barrels off Los Angeles coast may contain radioactive waste: report
The total number of barrels possibly leaking radioactive chemicals into the ocean is still a mystery — but one map from the International Atomic Energy Agency indicated that “more than 56,000 barrels of radioactive waste had been dumped into the Pacific Ocean on the U.S. side” just between 1945 and 1970.
Or…wait, don't panic yet…maybe it's not radioactive waste, maybe it's DDT.
“This is a classic situation of bad versus worse. It’s bad we have potential low-level radioactive waste just sitting there on the seafloor. It’s worse that we have DDT compounds spread across a wide area of the seafloor at concerning concentrations,” research team leader David Valentine told the Los Angeles Times.
Now panic.
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