More than 130 tons of irradiated US soil have been buried in a “tomb” in the Marshall Islands. The Marshall Islands, before, were the testing ground of the USA’s nuclear weapons and have thus suffered from radiation for decades already.
Now climate change is eroding the structure of the “Tomb” and radioactive water is seeping in the Pacific Ocean.
More than 40 years ago, U.S. authorities buried plutonium and other waste from nuclear testing in an unlined bomb crater on Runit Island and encapsulated it with concrete. The so-called Tomb, which is in Enewetak Atoll, now bobs with the tide, sucking in and flushing out radioactive water into nearby coral reefs, contaminating marine life.
As expected, the USA declines ay responsibility.
Read: How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster
