Sunken Nazi submarine described as an 'underwater Chernobyl' will be buried under rubble [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | October 12, 2018 | Chris Dyer

[C19fan]

The galleons were carrying mercury to be used to process silver mined in the Americas.

[Delta 21]

Secret nuclear jets that ran on toxic German mercury.

[semaj]

Flying saucers. The Mercury was being used as part of the experimental propulsion system. At least that’s what I learned on the Internet.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Jet parts?

The Japanese had a jet program just like every other combatant in the war.

[palmer]

http://www.historynet.com/the-uss-scorpion-buried-at-sea.htm

[Fred Hayek]

That was before homing torpedoes.

[Chuckster]

Recently a pkg containing a thermometer was damaged at the local post office...
So they burned all the mail in the building.

[SuperLuminal]

Nothing to worry about here... The U.S. can loan the EPA to whomever wants to retrieve the mercury... Their splendid record, as evidenced by a certain formerly-viable creek, will assure the world of an expert cleanup...

snicker...

[GOYAKLA]

A couple of weeks ago I watched on a history channel(?) the story of the saga that was the sinking of U-864. It was a very detailed video.
The following link, also covers the event but is not the one I watched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH-0XY0DROk
The 25 YO Brit. was a sharp dude, firing 4 torpedos and got lucky, when the German turned into the fourth.

[Simon Foxx]

Exactly. It was the only time during the war that this method was tried during combat.

[Paal Gulli]

U-234 contained the Nazi gifts to Japan of ~1200 lbs of uranium oxide as well as a new-in-the-box (literally) ME-262. She never reached Japan and was surrendered in obedience to orders from Dönitz a couple of week’s after Hitler’s suicide.