Runit Dome in Marshall Islands is a repository for atomic waste that the U.S. produced during Cold War weapons testing. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) In response to a directive from Congress, the ...
The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands was built to contain more than 111,000 cubic yards of radioactive soil left behind by 43 nuclear detonations. Decades later, cracks have formed in the concrete ...
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They set off hydrogen bombs here and the island has never recovered
Hydrogen bombs turned remote coral atolls into proving grounds, and the blast waves have never really stopped. In the ...
Graffiti in May 2018 is written on Runit Dome, in Enewetak Atoll of the Marshall Islands, urging the United States to take responsibility for the radioactive waste encapsulated inside the concrete ...
As nuclear explosions go, the US "Cactus" bomb test in May 1958 was relatively small -- but it has left a lasting legacy for the Marshall Islands in a dome-shaped radioactive dump. The dome -- ...
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 ...
The U.S. Congress has ordered an investigation into the so-called “Runit Dome,” a concrete dome containing contaminated radioactive debris leftover from nuclear weapons tests. The Department of Energy ...
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