Reporting from Majuro, Marshall IslandsReporting from Majuro, Marshall Islands — Researchers have found high levels of radiation in giant clams near the Central Pacific site where the United States ...
A giant, concrete dome filled with radioactive waste looms above Runit Island, and it’s leaking. Locals call it “The Tomb”. Runit (or Cactus) dome was used for Cold War nuclear testing by the US ...
RADIOACTIVE waste from nuclear weapons tests could be seeping from its 'concrete coffin' and leaking deadly atomic 'sludge' into the Pacific Ocean. The United Nations Secretary General recently ...
Radioactive waste from Cold War nuclear weapons tests could be leaking into the Pacific Ocean. According to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, a concrete dome that was built on Runit ...
For years, American authorities have asserted they hold no responsibility for Runit Dome, a concrete-capped waste site in the Marshall Islands, where the United States dumped 35 Olympic swimming pools ...
More than 40 years ago, the U.S. buried radioactive waste on Runit Island. The leaking dump site is a point of contention in negotiations over an extended security pact with the Marshall Islands ...
Nuclear waste from Cold War weapons tests are thought to be leaking from “concrete coffin” into the Pacific Ocean. The United Nations Secretary General recently revealed he was “worried” about the ...
Former workers who entombed a radioactive waste site in the Pacific Ocean left a clear message before completing their work: a middle finger. According to Paul Griego, 62, who survived efforts to ...
Congress has taken notice of the otherworldly concrete dome on a spit of coral in the central Pacific that serves as a massive radioactive trash can for doomsday weapons waste. As part of the defense ...
Congress is demanding the Department of Energy investigate an aging, cracking U.S. nuclear waste dump threatened by climate change and rising seas in the Marshall Islands. As part of the new National ...
A proper base for the 'coffin' was never made and cracks are appearing all over the structure RADIOACTIVE waste from nuclear weapons tests could be seeping from its ‘concrete coffin’ and leaking ...