{"id":860753,"date":"2026-08-19T11:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860753\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:24:20","slug":"scientists-fear-leaks-in-2-lakh-barrels-of-nuclear-waste-undersea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860753\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists fear leaks in 2 lakh barrels of nuclear waste undersea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/133325442.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/toi-plus\/author-teamtoiplus-479255230\" class=\"BKh30\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team TOI Plus<\/a>TIMESOFINDIA.COMUpdated: Aug 18, 2026, 22:18 IST IST<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,00,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped into the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during the second half of the 20th century \u2013 between 1946 and 1990. They have been sitting thousands of metres below the surface ever since, largely out of sight and difficult to study.<br \/>Now scientists have gone down for a closer look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team TOI PlusTIMESOFINDIA.COMUpdated: Aug 18, 2026, 22:18 IST IST More than 2,00,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[430578,64,63,430585,430580,75,430584,53703,430581,430579,430583,430582,430577,128],"class_list":["post-860753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-atlantic-nuclear-waste","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bay-of-biscay-nuclear-waste","tag-deep-sea-radioactive-waste","tag-environment","tag-marine-life-radiation","tag-nautile-submersible","tag-nodssum-expedition","tag-nuclear-waste-dumping","tag-ocean-nuclear-pollution","tag-radioactive-contamination-atlantic-ocean","tag-radioactive-waste-barrels","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}