The U.S. Government Accountability Office reported earlier this year that radioactive contamination in the Marshall Islands, Greenland, and Spain could be disturbed or unearthed as a result of climate change. In the Marshall Islands, where the U.S. tested 67 nuclear weapons, rising sea levels may flood the Runit Dome, where U.S. troops buried 3.1 million cubic feet of radioactive material in a crater left by one of 11 bomb tests done on the island, covering it with a cement lid. Congress ordered a remediation plan for the cracking cement dome — now threatened by rising sea levels — which was never produced. In Greenland, radioactive, chemical, and human waste, including polychlorinated biphenyls, were buried in the ice at Camp Century U.S. military base. The camp itself was a series of 21 tunnels carved into the ice and was powered by a nuclear reactor. As Arctic ice sheets melt, this contamination could enter the oceans, the water cycle, and the food chain.
— ZME Science, July 16; Grist, Feb. 26, 2024
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