US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

The US Congress has demanded an investigation into a concrete dome full of nuclear waste, threatened by rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands.
...
More than 40 nuclear weapons tests took place on or near the Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific between 1946 and 1958, including a bomb test on Runit Island.

The crater from that blast was used from the 1970s by the Defense Nuclear Agency to store nuclear waste. It was later covered in thick concrete slabs to form the 377ft (115 metre) protective dome.

There are concerns that the structure is deteriorating and could be vulnerable to sea-level rise caused by climate change.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50951981

---

Oh joy - nuclear waste and climate change collide.

[turbinetree]

1. WE really are stupid species................................no foresight...............none.........

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Not to worry.

"However, the soil around the dome was found to be more contaminated than its contents, so a breach could not increase the radiation levels by any means."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit_Island

(Sarcasm implied)

[Demonaut]

4. famous last words

[Evolve Dammit]

3. I'm sure Drumpf will get right on that.... Current admin could care less.

[Hekate]

5. Kudos to Los Angeles Times, who did an in-depth multi-part series on the Marshall Islands...

Last edited Tue Dec 31, 2019, 12:53 PM - Edit history (1)

...late this year. They put this out there, and I am sure the new demand from Congress to investigate is connected.

[ouija]

6. This it the part

Of a fictional story where a giant radioactive lizard comes out of the ground and destroys Tokyo. Well, at least Trump wouldn’t care if Tokyo was destroyed as he is pissed at South Korea right now anyway.

[packman]

7. Damn, you beat me to it

And thus Godzilla rises from his birthplace