The part of the article that caught me was that European Companies used to just drain nuclear waste (not sure what type), into the rivers in China and they would eventually flow into the sea
* Naval Nuclear Waste Management in Northwest Russia - https://bellona.org/news/russian-human-rights-issues/nikitin...
* Yucca Flat - https://eros.usgs.gov/earthshots/yucca-flat-nevada-usa
* Hanford Nuclear Site - https://darrp.noaa.gov/hazardous-waste/hanford-nuclear-site
are just three, in no particular order.
They eventually filled the lake in, I can only say hats off to the poor buggers who had to do that. I think it's safe to say they had the world's worst job at the time.
This quote sounds much more like “USSR military apparatus ” than “European companies”:
> decades-old nuclear weapons tests and nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities in Europe,