{"id":46188,"date":"2019-05-17T07:08:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T12:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46188"},"modified":"2019-05-17T07:08:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T12:08:48","slug":"radioactive-nuclear-coffin-may-be-leaking-into-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46188","title":{"rendered":"Radioactive &#8216;Nuclear Coffin&#8217; May Be Leaking Into The Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-05-16\/radioactive-nuclear-coffin-may-be-leaking-pacific\">Radioactive &#8216;Nuclear Coffin&#8217;\u00a0May Be Leaking Into The Pacific<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has sounded the alarm over a giant concrete dome built 40 years ago in the Marshall Islands&nbsp;to contain radioactive waste from Cold War-era atomic tests.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/runit%20dome.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Guterres, the dome &#8211; which houses approximately 73,000 cubic meters of debris on Runit island, part of the&nbsp;Enewetak Atoll &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>may be leaking radioactive material into the Pacific Ocean<\/strong>, as the porous ground underneath the 18&#8243; thick dome was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-11-27\/the-dome-runit-island-nuclear-test-leaking-due-to-climate-change\/9161442\">never lined<\/a>&nbsp;as originally planned. It was constructed in the crater formed by the 18-kt Cactus test.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cS6FhVa_PvI\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Pacific was victimised in the past as we all know,&#8221; Guterres told students in the island nation of Figi&nbsp;while&nbsp;on a tour of the South Pacific.&nbsp;&#8220;I&#8217;ve just been with the President of the Marshall Islands (Hilda Heine), who is very worried because<strong>&nbsp;there is a risk of leaking of radioactive materials that are contained in a kind of coffin in the area.<\/strong>&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/doe%20%20cap.png?itok=thNGhge0\"><em>DoE report, 2013<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents of the Islands were relocated from their ancestral lands shortly after the United States began what would become 67 nuclear weapons tests from 1946 &#8211; 1958 at Bikini and Enewetak atolls. Despite US efforts to move people to safety, thousands of islanders were exposed to radioactive fallout from above-ground tests conducted before a moratorium was enacted in 1958.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tests included the 15 Megaton Castle Bravo on the Bikini Atoll, which was detonated on March 1, 1954. It was the most powerful ever detonated by the United States &#8211; and around 1,000 times bigger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima just nine years before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radioactive &#8216;Nuclear Coffin&#8217;\u00a0May Be Leaking Into The Pacific UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has sounded the alarm over a giant concrete dome built 40 years ago in the Marshall Islands&nbsp;to contain radioactive waste from Cold War-era atomic tests.&nbsp; According to Guterres, the dome &#8211; which houses approximately 73,000 cubic meters of debris on Runit island, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25886,25885,13084,4773,8292,25887],"class_list":["post-46188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-atomic-tests","tag-marshall-islands","tag-pacific-ocean","tag-radioactivity","tag-runit-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46189,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46188\/revisions\/46189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}