Climate change threatens to disturb a gigantic heap of nuclear waste contained inside the Runit Dome on the Marshall Islands, known to locals as"the tomb."and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism found the Tomb is barely holding it together as it is—but rising sea levels and higher temperatures triggered by anthropogenic climate change could tip it over the edge and leak toxic waste into the surrounding areas.
The most toxic waste was scooped up and dumped in the tomb, constructed on top of an unlined crater and covered with an 18-inch cap—fulfilling"a moral obligation" on the part of the U.S., unclassified documents read by theshow. But even then, there were concerns over how fit for purpose this structure really was. A 1981 military document cited by therevealed several people knew"radioactive material was leaking out of the crater even then and would continue to do so.
But Terry Hamilton of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory involved in the 2013 report has said the dome doesn't present a threat to locals—"there is no radiological basis why I or anyone else should be concerned about living on Enewetak," he told theCORBIS/Corbis/Getty "We don't want it. We didn't build it. The garbage inside is not ours. It's theirs," said Hilda Heine, the president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the"Runit Dome represents a tragic confluence of nuclear testing and climate change," Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, told reporters writing forin 2015.
HBO Chernobil producers be like :
Yikes, was hoping climate change...
The Marshall Islands should find a way to send the waste back to the U.S ... if at all possible.
Call Lara Croft so she can raid it!
let’s get this straight.Not Russia or latest obsession Iran will nuke us its our own nuclear waste that will finish us. It’s now no longer greenhouse gas that will kill us but our waste but we are still blaming climate change . Seriously who is behind this absolute nonsense?
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