Arctic Life Not Damaged By Nuclear Waste Dumping (400)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Decades of radioactive waste dumping has not seriously polluted the Arctic Ocean, a University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory study shows. Dr. Lee Cooper, an oceanographer for UT-Knoxville and ORNL, said the former Soviet Union dumped waste from nuclear plants and weapons into the Arctic Ocean for 30 years before the practice