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  • I would imagine this would have a grave impact on the ecology of the oceans themselves which would eventually be rather harmful. Nuclear waste has a nasty habit of leaking and once it is in the ecosystem we would have problems. Also there would be legal barriers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Geological_disposal There is a brief discussion on marine disposal here.
  • I watched a program on some of the marine life found on the ocean floor and in some of the trenches. It would be a shame to destroy these magnificent, strange and often beautiful creatures with our waste.
  • Because it wouldn't stay there it would spread to all the shores of the earth and infect all living ocean creatures and all that water. That is like poisoning the garden all around your home.
  • People have given many good reasons why it's a bad idea. For me, one of the strongest reasons is that many living things inhabit those trenches. I don't want nuclear waste in my home; I doubt they do either. From a BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7704551.stm In 1960, Piccard and US co-pilot Don Walsh took a submersible developed by his father to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific. They went 11km (seven miles) beneath the surface of the sea. Their discovery of living organisms at that depth led to a ban on the dumping of nuclear waste in ocean trenches. "By far the most interesting find was the fish that came floating by our porthole," Piccard said afterwards. "We were astounded to find higher marine life forms down there at all."

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