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2. Chemical dumps in ocean off Southern California - Wikipedia

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   Waste disposed included refinery wastes, filter cakes and oil drilling wastes, chemical wastes, refuse and garbage, military explosives and radioactive wastes. [1] [2] From 1946 to 1970, over 56,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped into the eastern Pacific Ocean, according to a 1999 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The ...

3. Revelations of possible radioactive dumping around the Bay ...

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   The deposits were made in places that are now open to the public — and could contain radioactive material. A former chemical plant dumped thousands of tons of industrial waste around the San ...

4. It's not just toxic chemicals. Radioactive waste was also ...

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   A research team led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography just recently set sail to help ... had received a permit in 1959 to dump containerized radioactive waste about 150 miles ...

5. Ocean disposal of radioactive waste - Wikipedia

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   The first conversations surrounding dumping radioactive waste into the ocean began in 1958 at the United Nations Law of the Sea Conference (UNCLOS). [12] The conference resulted in an agreement that all states should actively try to prevent radioactive waste pollution in the sea and follow any international guidelines regarding the issue. [12]

6. List of Superfund sites in California - Wikipedia

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   These locations are known as Superfund sites and are placed on the National Priorities ... Waste Disposal, Inc. Los Angeles ... San Diego: 07/14/1989: 11/21/1989: N/A ...

7. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - Wikipedia

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   The Nuclear Waste Administration would be allowed to draw from that fund any amounts needed to carry out S.854, unless limited by annual appropriations or authorizations. [107] S.854 died in committee. As of September 30, 2021, the Nuclear Waste Fund had an investment fair value of $52.4 billion. [108]

8. Regulators reject Berkeley plan that would have allowed ... - AOL

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   In January, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Board informed the cities of Albany and Berkeley that a former chemical plant had disposed of 11,100 tons of industrial waste at their ...

9. Farallon Islands - Wikipedia

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   The above map indicates the approximate locations of two major nuclear waste dumping sites, according to a 1980 United States Environmental Protection Agency report. [ 25 ] From 1946 to 1970, the sea around the Farallones was used as a dump site for radioactive waste under the authority of the Atomic Energy Commission at a site known as the ...