Nuclear Waste Pacific Island

For decades radioactive debris has sat on an uninhabited island in the pacific ocean.

Nuclear waste recycled into diamond batteries. Troops were deployed to collect waste from sites mix it with concrete and dump in a nuclear test crater on runit island. Pacific islanders continue to be exposed to nuclear radiation. Now rising sea levels are threatening to spill its.

Put nuclear waste under a dome on a pacific island. Within seconds a mushroom cloud towered. International pressure finally halted the bombing but the damage was done and continues to this day.

That time bomb is more than 31 million cubic feet of radioactive waste. Us nuclear waste coffin on pacific island breaking up. Thousands of cubic metres of radioactive waste lies buried under a concrete dome the legacy of over a decade of us nuclear tests in the pacific.

Nuclear tests pulverized the tranquil reefs and islands of south pacific. From 1946 to 1958 67 us nuclear tests pulverised the tranquil reefs and islands of south pacific. Nuclear explosions we know very well do not observe national borders they dont respect visa regimes nor does nuclear waste.

Now its cracking open. That dome is the connection between the nuclear age and the climate change age. Runit island r u n t is one of 40 islands of the enewetak atoll of the marshall islands in the pacific oceanthe island is the site of a radioactive waste repository left by the united states after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on enewetak atoll between 1946 and 1958.

At 645am on march 1 1954 the blue sky stretching over the central pacific ocean was split open by an enormous red flash. International pressure finally halted the bombing but the damage was done and continues to. In the late 70s 4000 us.

It was then encased in a larger concrete dome which some locals refer to as the tomb. Now its cracking open.