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that was used in the first world war, monufoctured but not used in the second world
war, and dumped in the Boltic Sea after World War ll. Bolc fishermen were unprepared for the gas, however; unprotected, they houled up mustord gas bombs in their
nets in 1969, and several were iniured.
in their trawling nets [32]. Two of the men required surgical skin trans—
plantations. The bombs were part of some 20,000 tons of chemical wa1fare
material dumped into the Baltic after the war. The dumping site was origi—
nally 20 miles north of the area where the shermen were
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from coastal resort areas.
Still another type of pollutant is released by various applications of nu—
clear energy. Although the US. Atomic Energy Commission has greatly restricted the amounts of radioactive material that can be discharged at sea… &
total of 86,758 containers With low—level radioactive wastes were sunk in the
ocean o U.S. coasts from 1946 tln‘0ugh 1970. At the time of disposal: these
wastes contained an estimated 94,673 curies of radioacüty [33]. Low—level
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