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08/08/2007: "USA dumped nuclear waste into bay"

Fishing boats from ports up and down the coast kept reporting that they were hauling up barrels and broken concrete containers of waste in their nets.

One fisherman from Gloucester remembers when a little something extra came up in his nets some years back.

“We got a barrel in the net so we opened it,” he recalls. “Right away it started burning everyone’s eyes. A little of it spilled and it started to corrode the deck; we got scared and threw it back.”

During the ’80s and ’90s, government agencies conducted several surveys of the ocean floor using the latest high-tech gadgets available at the time. Yes, the EPA did find about 10,000 to 20,000 barrels in the foul area — the state’s main ocean dump site — and yes, about half of them were corroded, and yeah, there is some sediment that showed radioactive contamination — but according to the EPA there is no risk to human health and no imminent ecological threat.

[ As you die of cancer, be thankful these people got famous and rich by throwing nuclear waste a mile from shore. ]

http://www.townonline.com/malden/news/x986383762