Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea

Re:Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea by Shivetya on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:27AM (#24354150)

While a bit sensationalist it obviously poses a real problem and fortunately its being acknowledged and acted upon.

however google can bring up the stuff of nightmares of what we have dumped into the oceans, worse this of course only what we know of. many countries have dumped stuff without any record keeping.

Chemical Weapons and other munitions https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/decaying-weapo...

https://www.nonproliferation.org/chemical-weapon-munitions-d...

Gulf of Mexico https://www.jacksonville.com/zz/news/20190719/what-lies-bene...

Low level radioactive wastes http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/jones-a2/

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Re:Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea by hpph on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:08PM (#24354577)

there is a documentary on youtube about oil leaking out of sunk WWII ships. Some of those ships are really close to shores and tourist destinations. Fun time.

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Re:Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea by mchem on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:41PM (#24357132)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OP0U62oiBlM - The DW documentary on the matter.

A fascinating watch. It is a shame that the economics do not play out in such a way that recovery and resale is feasible. Sadly, I do not expect most governments to be as proactive as Norway’s on the matter.

The documentary suggests that even covering a wreck with sand as a preventative measure costs 10s of millions of €s. Surely an opportunity for a lower cost solution exists here?

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