Stupid Russians. And they thought they were so smart because they used a pencil instead of spending $3,000,000 to design a pen that will write in space. Harumph!
In case you're not kidding, and if you are, for the innocents out there, the Fischer space pen was designed entirely privately by Fischer using his own funds. After creating the pen, a number were sold to both the US and Russian space agencies.
As for the pencil - remember the characteristics of a pencil when writing. Pencil graphite, especially in zero g/high O2 environments is flammable, conductive, and releases itself as a powder when writing with it.
And they are good pens. I love mine.
Volcanic eruptions in the deep blue sea are no rarity. Virtified and cased lumps of nuclear waste could become uncased and unvirtified material at any time; that's a very high stakes game of roulette.
Thing is, you do realize that even unvirtrified material won't make a measurable difference up against the radioactive materials already dissolved in seawater? That can come spewing out of the volcano itself?
Really, ask yourself: What's the failure mode?