Radioactivity still lingers more than 60 years after atomic weapons, including the hydrogen bomb, were tested in the Marshall Islands. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65949-marshall-islands-more-radioactivity-chernobyl.html
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A Sunken Soviet Sub Is Raising the Radioactivity of the Norwegian Sea 800,000-Fold. But Don’t Worry.
A Cold War Russian nuclear submarine is leaking radioactive material into the Norwegian Sea. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65931-radioactive-soviet-submarine-leak.html
Should the UK Re-Open An Old, Cracked Nuclear Reactor?
“Nuclear experts have warned against re-opening a 43-year-old Scottish nuclear reactor riddled with cracks over fears of a meltdown,” writes the Daily Mirror. An anonymous reader quotes their report: Hunterston B nuclear power plant was shut down last year after it was found that Reactor 3 had almost 400 cracks in it — exceeding the operational limit. EDF, which own the…