Talk:Ocean disposal of radioactive waste

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france should add 13,279 TBqs to the pacafic re dumping around Mururoa atol More than 3,200 tonnes of various types of radioactive waste was tipped into the Pacific, sinking to depths exceeding 1,000 metres off the coast of Mururoa and Hao island

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/07/france-polynesia-atolls-nuclear-tests#:~:text=More%20than%203%2C200%20tonnes%20of,of%20Mururoa%20and%20Hao%20island. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.196.105.224 (talk) 04:10, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Discussion of merger proposal

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The result of this discussion was to keep separate articles. --Stfg (talk) 16:40, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

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The large quantities of cooling water required by coastal thermal power plants make dilution an economically attractive option for soluble low level waste disposal in the United States because the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) holds regulatory supremacy over the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). USEPA's traditional preference for controlling mass emission rates rather than waste concentration is bypassed by NRC's focus on concentration as measured by radioactivity. Merger would orphan this issue.Thewellman (talk) 16:33, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

My opinion is "Keep separated". When I posted this page, I knew that Ocean floor disposal exists. I did refrain to expand that page due to 1)World Nuclear Association define "the ocean floor disposal(sub seabed disposal)" and "ocean dumping (sea disposal)" as separate method. 2)"Ocean floor disposal" does not have any citations.

Thewellman, I agree. Current script only cover past dumping (1946-93) reported in IAEA_TECDOC_1105 by each government (questionable reliable source, sarcastically speaking). Beside that not only US but all other nuclear countries keep dumping low level liquid waste (Bq/Kg) to river and sea as accepted practice. I believe UNSCEAR report about these discharge. This subject can be included in this article. There are other report (IAEA-TECDOC-1242) covering accidental release of radioactive material to sea. In this case radioactive material is not waste, so page title does not fit. can be separate page or include here and change the name of the page.--MasAqui (talk) 20:33, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

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Dumping of nuclear waste in Somalia's waters

What about the widely reported dumping of nuclear waste in Somalia's territorial waters since the 1990s, following the disintegration of the state? Some examples:

"Tsunami waves could have spread illegally dumped nuclear waste and other toxic waste on Somalia's coast, a United Nations spokesman has said. [...] Some firms have been dumping waste off Somalia's coast for years, the UN says. It says international companies have been taken advantage of the fact that Somalia had no functioning government from the early 1990s until recently."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4312553.stm

According to Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, UN envoy to Somalia:

"Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury – you name it."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/somalia-you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates/

Meanwhile, like in the peak of the Cold War era, Somalia remains as an exploited pawn in a deadly chess game. And as, Nick Nuttall, the spokesman for the United Nations Environment Program, recently said "European companies and others" will keep using Somalia "as a dumping ground for a wide array of nuclear and hazardous wastes." Nuttall confirmed the horrific allegations that "There´s uranium radioactive waste, there´s leads, there´s heavy metals like cadmium and mercury, there´s industrial wastes, and there´s hospital wastes, chemical wastes, you name it."

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/100320 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/27/960694/-More-Illegally-Dumped-Radioactive-Waste-Found-on-Somalia-s-Coast

It seems that dumping of nuclear waste into oceans did not stop in 1993.

And why is the southern part of the map missing?

History teaches (talk) 10:47, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

I fixed the map. I agree that the (alleged) illegal dumping should be mentioned. Possibly with a link to Toxic waste dumping by the 'Ndrangheta. However there is very little data other than allegations. And much of it is in justification arguments for Somali piracy. Arguing that Somalians were driven to piracy because of European and Asian activities decimating the fish stock. It is detailed in Piracy in Somalia article. It is in my view likely that any alledged nuclear dumping has had a far smaller impact on the fish stock than illegal fishing, and dumping of toxic non-nuclear waste. Allegations of illegal dumping of nuclear waste in Africa are not limited to Somalian waters. There are allegations in various parts both on land and oceanic disposal. In the intrest of NPOV i will not make the edits. Pinfix (talk) 19:11, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Medical waste doesn't fall in the same category as nuclear waste, I recommend this information be reprocessed to better represent the actual content of the waste. 60.242.30.23 (talk) 15:32, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Source does not support the claim that nuclear waste is being dumped in Somalias ocean. Global research is also not a reliable source I am removing this segment as there is no cited evidence to support the claim. Please do not make extrapolations from misleading quotations. 110.174.34.170 (talk) 08:17, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

China CCP PRC missing their data sheets

Who has removed all information about Chinas dumping into the Ocean ? Not one note despite all their Nuclear dumping ? 58.174.30.224 (talk) 14:37, 19 April 2024 (UTC)