Here's the press release. Earth.com is classic churnalism, and I've seen AI slop writing from it before.

Edit: And from The Conversation (French). Keep in mind this story is two months old.

its summoning a kaiju

So they looked at a known nuclear waste disposal location and they are surprised they found leaking nuclear waste.

At least nowadays the nuclear waste is stored in nearly indestructible stainless steel and concrete canisters and not some unsuitable steel barrels, thrown in the ocean.

I mean, what did they think would happen?

In the pursuit of not spending money on something that isn’t profitable humans just pulled a “if I can’t see it, it can’t hurt me”.

Just stick radioactive waste in cement or whatever and drop it in the ocean. poof, gone! Would you look at that, it isn’t a problem anymore! Like a dog kicking bits of grass on a giant turd it just left.

The good news is that they weren't meant to be permanent, only hold long enough for the material to decay. The article doesn't say (or they don't know yet) if that was achieved. They do say that the measurements for radioactivity picked up something, but it might have been the background radiation that's everywhere thanks to worldwide nuclear testing. Not much we can do about it at that depth.

Do you want a Godzilla? Because this is how you get a Godzilla

Not great, but the least of our problems. Probably the oceans will be free of fish by 2040, the way things are going. That radioactivity might just mutate some things to survive, but I kinda doubt it.

Feeling pretty bad for future residents of Earth. It is not going to be pleasant.