Arctic crab invasion comes to nuclear waste graveyard
Researchers have found a huge influx of snow crabs in parts of Russia's Kara Sea where radioactive waste was once dumped.
November 27, 2018
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The Soviet Union during the 1960s and 70s dumped several hundred containers with solid radioactive waste in the Blagopoluchie Bay in Novaya Zemlya. At that time, these waters were covered with ice most of the year.
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