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[kobikiyama]

Runit Dome

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[jeroenapers]

De gigantische Runit Dome op de Marshall Eilanden, een betonnen kist met 88.000 kubieke meter in de VS geproduceerd nucleair afval. Deze bergingscel loopt nu het risico in te storten en radioactieve stoffen uit te lekken die zijn achtergebleven bij enkele van ’s werelds grootste atoomwapentests. 
Tussen 1946 -1958 voerden de VS 67 kernproeven uit op de Marshalleilanden. Toen de proeven stopten, namen ze het afval van de eilanden mee, samen met besmette grond van Nevada testlocaties, dumpten het in een krater die was achtergelaten bij een nucleaire ontploffing, en bedekten het met beton. 
Daarna verklaarden ze de zaak gesloten. Nu de constructie dreigt in te storten, hebben de ambtenaren van de Marshalleseilanden de regering van de VS om hulp gevraagd; Deze hebben geweigerd, en zeggen dat de koepel op hun land ligt en dus de verantwoordelijkheid van de Marshallese regering is.

[mirtadraws]

Please be disgusted by this nuclear fact.

[albonynet]

تسرب نفايات قاتلة إلى المحيط الهادئ.. وأمريكا تبدأ التحقيقات

تسرب نفايات قاتلة إلى المحيط الهادئ.. وأمريكا تبدأ التحقيقات

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تشقق “القبر الخرساني” الضخم للنفايات المشعة، ما أثار المخاوف ودفع إلى فتح تحقيق حول إمكانية تسرب النفايات إلى المحيط الهادئ، وأمر الكونجرس الأمريكى وزارة الطاقة (DOE) بالتحقيق بما يحدث فى قبة Runit Dome بالمحيط الهادئ، التى يطبق عليها اسم “القبر الإشعاعي” أو “التابوت النووي”، باعتبارها مليئة بالنفايات المشعة.

وبنيت قبةRunit Dome عام 1980 لتغطى الحفرة التى أحدثتها القنابل النووية التى…

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#Runit2050

The sun rises over the Marshall Islands, casting a light over the azure waters.  People in the capital bustle to their appointments and obligations; women wear dresses adorned with flower prints, portraying the paradise pillaged by Western tourists every summer season.  Marshallese hands exchange goods for United States dollars, even though they had been out from under their rule since the 1980s.  Yet their original currency was of such low value that they suffered the same fate as Ecuador and had no choice but to take the U.S. Dollar.

In the city hospital, a woman gives birth to a newborn baby. The woman’s name is Hoku.  This was Hoku’s third child, second son. Hopefully this one will live. The obstetrician, seeing the baby boy, shook her head.  She cut the umbilical cord, cleaned him off, wrapped him in a blue towel and put her in an incubator.  Hoku, the hopeful mother looked at the incubator and saw the source of the doctor’s disappointment, soon to be her own.

Her son’s body could fit in her hand, limp and listless.  His head was the size of a large cantaloupe, highly disproportionate to the rest of his frame.  Skin transparent, blood coursing through veins, highly visible.  Her son’s breathing was shallow.  Another “jellyfish baby”.  He won’t make it past this week.

-Thalia Harris

[systemrelevant-blog]

"Schließlich mischten die Arbeiter den radioaktiven Schotter einfach mit Zement und schütteten ihn in den 107 Meter breiten Krater, der 1958 durch den Abwurf einer 18-Kilotonnen-Bombe im Rahmen der Operation "Cactus" auf der Insel entstanden war. Mit Betonplatten wurde diese riesige nukleare Mülltonne dann versiegelt. Fertig war Runit Dome."

[mirrorontheworld]

The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising sea levels caused by climate change could cause 111,000 cubic yards of debris to spill into the ocean