Dome covering nuclear weapon waste in Pacific is cracking

essentialsaltes said:

Beginning in 1977, 4,000 US servicemen began collecting an estimated 73,000 cubic meters of tainted surface soil across the islands, according to the Marshall Islands’ government.

The material was then transported to Runit Island, where a 328-foot crater remained from a May 1958 test explosion. For three years, the American military dumped the material into the crater.

In 1980, a massive concrete dome – 18 inches thick and shaped like a flying saucer – was placed over the fallout debris, sealing off the material on Runit.

But the $218 million (£172 million) project was only supposed to be temporary until a more permanent site was developed, according to The Guardian. However, no further plans were ever hatched.

And now it's beginning to crack.

Worse yet, it's probably already leaking. On the list of Future Problems Waiting to Happen, somewhere near "You Only Moved the Headstones" is "You didn't line the 'temporary' nuclear waste site on an atoll that barely pokes out of the water"

“The bottom of the dome is just what was left behind by the nuclear weapons explosion,” Michael Gerrard, the chair of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, told ABC.

“It’s permeable soil. There was no effort to line it. And therefore, the seawater is inside the dome.”

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...because nothing beats good ol' fashioned American 'know-how'!

What could possibly go wrong?

Tanj said:

What could possibly go wrong?

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Nice kitty, kitty .......

essentialsaltes said:

Beginning in 1977, 4,000 US servicemen began collecting an estimated 73,000 cubic meters of tainted surface soil across the islands, according to the Marshall Islands’ government.

The material was then transported to Runit Island, where a 328-foot crater remained from a May 1958 test explosion. For three years, the American military dumped the material into the crater.

In 1980, a massive concrete dome – 18 inches thick and shaped like a flying saucer – was placed over the fallout debris, sealing off the material on Runit.

But the $218 million (£172 million) project was only supposed to be temporary until a more permanent site was developed, according to The Guardian. However, no further plans were ever hatched.

And now it's beginning to crack.

Worse yet, it's probably already leaking. On the list of Future Problems Waiting to Happen, somewhere near "You Only Moved the Headstones" is "You didn't line the 'temporary' nuclear waste site on an atoll that barely pokes out of the water"

“The bottom of the dome is just what was left behind by the nuclear weapons explosion,” Michael Gerrard, the chair of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, told ABC.

“It’s permeable soil. There was no effort to line it. And therefore, the seawater is inside the dome.”

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Actually they knew in 2013 that there were cracks from weathering. The Marshall Islands are self governing but still associated with the USA. Their self government treaty included a settlement of the nuclear issue once and for all. But it seems politicians are now once again raising this issue probably to try and extract aid from the USA to make necessary improvements for the safeguarding of the Plutonium waste. If the Dome cracks that is a major poisoning of the sea waters in the area. Apparently Runit island is more radioactive than the stuff inside the Dome which is in itself another issue.

Someone needs to invent a cure for radioactivity, blast the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of contaminated land into space or into the earths core or better build 1 million year guaranteed safety boxes to store the stuff in

It is also time to take a good look at the history of USA central banking policy so that we can realize that we really can afford to spend more on infrastructure.

Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy

In 1972, the United States Treasury Department was asked to compute the amount of interest that would have been paid if that 400 million dollars would have been borrowed at interest instead of being issued by Abraham Lincoln. They did some computations, and a few weeks later, the United States Treasury Department said the United States Government saved 4 billion dollars in interest because Lincoln had created his own money. So you can about imagine how much the Government has paid and how much we owe solely on the basis of interest.

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Genesis 11:6 "And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."

Ecclesiastes 10:19 "A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things."