Community | September 15, 2009 | 7 comments

Mafia intentionally 'sank nuclear waste ship'

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8257912.stm

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A shipwreck that could contain nuclear waste is being investigated by authorities in Italy amid claims that it was deliberately sunk by the mafia.

An informant told a judge the ship was one of a number he blew up as part of an illegal operation to bypass rules on the disposal of toxic waste.

The sunken vessel has been found 30km (18 miles) off the south-west of Italy.

Murky pictures taken by a robot camera show the vessel intact and alongside it are a number of yellow barrels.

Labels on them say the contents are toxic.

The informant said the mafia had muscled in on the lucrative business of nuclear waste disposal.

But he said that instead of getting rid of the material safely, he blew up the vessel out at sea, off the Calabrian coast.

He also says he was responsible for sinking two other ships containing toxic waste.

Experts are now examining samples taken from the wreck.
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7 comments // Mafia intentionally 'sank nuclear waste ship'

  • jubal
  • mabarre3
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      mabarre3  

    • The Camorra has been doing this for a few years now...read Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah. And they're not known as a mafia, they're one of the most dangerous criminal organizations.

    • 2 years ago
  • cego
  • ampersand
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      ampersand  

    • I feel so safe knowing all the problems of nuclear waste disposal are finally solved; just and send them on a scenic sea cruise around Sicily.

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
  • NeutronActivation
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      NeutronActivation  

    • So much for the international nuclear regulatory process. Can you imagine where nuclear waste from countries like N. Korea, Israel, China ends up?
      We all know where the Russians stored the nuclear waste from Chernobyl.

      I can't wait until the world ramps up the nuclear nightmare then all of use can get into the lucrative nuclear waste dumping market! (>

    • 2 years ago
  • WakeUpPeople
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