DoomsdaysCW<p>Back before the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BananaMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BananaMan</span></a> took over anything nuclear ("Radiation is harmless! It's even in bananas!"), there was actual reporting on the dangers of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> (and weapons)!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radioactivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Radioactivity</span></a> in the Ocean: Diluted, But Far from Harmless</p><p>With contaminated water from Japan’s crippled <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fukushima</span></a> nuclear complex continuing to pour into the Pacific, scientists are concerned about how that radioactivity might affect marine life. Although the ocean’s capacity to dilute radiation is huge, signs are that nuclear isotopes are already moving up the local <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodChain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodChain</span></a>.</p><p>By Elizabeth Grossman • April 7, 2011</p><p>"Over the past half-century, the world has seen its share of incidents in which radioactive material has been dumped or discharged into the oceans. A British nuclear fuels plant has repeatedly released radioactive waste into the Irish Sea [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sellafield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sellafield</span></a>] , a French nuclear reprocessing plant has discharged similar waste into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnglishChannel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishChannel</span></a>, and for decades the Soviets dumped large quantities of radioactive material into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArcticOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArcticOcean</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KaraSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KaraSea</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BarentsSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BarentsSea</span></a>. That radioactive material included reactors from at least 16 Soviet <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a>-powered submarines and icebreakers, and large amounts of liquid and solid <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> from USSR military bases and weapons plants."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/radioactivity_in_the_ocean_diluted_but_far_from_harmless" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">e360.yale.edu/features/radioac</span><span class="invisible">tivity_in_the_ocean_diluted_but_far_from_harmless</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FloatingNuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FloatingNuclearPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNuclearWar</span></a></p>