Tag Archives: the Marshall Islands

New U.S. law requires probe of Marshall Islands nuclear dump threatened by rising seas via Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2019/12/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By SUSANNE RUST Congress is demanding that the Department of Energy investigate an aging, cracking U.S. nuclear waste dump threatened by climate change and rising seas in the Marshall Islands. As part of the new National Defense Authorization Act, signed last week … Continue reading →

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Congress Demands Investigation Into the U.S.’s Nuclear Coffin via Popular Mechanics

Posted on 2019/12/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Runit Dome is leaking radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean. By Kyle MizokamiDec 27, 2019 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 … Continue reading →

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Radioactive ‘Tomb’ in Pacific Filled With Nuclear Waste Is Starting to Crack via Science Alert

Posted on 2019/11/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

ARIA BENDIX, BUSINESS INSIDER In the Marshall Islands, locals have a nickname for the Runit Dome nuclear-waste site: They call it ‘The Tomb’. The sealed pit contains more than 3.1 million cubic feet (87,800 cubic meters) of radioactive waste, which workers … Continue reading →

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How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster via Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2019/11/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By SUSANNE RUST […] Here in the Marshall Islands, Runit Dome holds more than 3.1 million cubic feet — or 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools — of U.S.-produced radioactive soil and debris, including lethal amounts of plutonium. Nowhere else has the United … Continue reading →

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He saw a Marshall Islands nuclear bomb test up close. It’s haunted him since 1952 via Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2019/11/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By SUSANNE RUST MENLO PARK, Calif. —  In the summer of 1952, Alan Jones, an industrious redhead with an impish smile, yearned for excitement and adventure. He drove down the California coast from Berkeley to La Jolla, hoping to join an oceanographic expedition … Continue reading →

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Bikini Atoll Is Not A Beer: Pacific Islanders Speak Out via The Asia-Pacific Journal

Posted on 2019/09/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Laray Polk Pacific Islanders are speaking out after a Texas-based company, the Manhattan Project Beer Co, named one of its handcrafted beers, Bikini Atoll. Based on news coverage and responses on social media, people around the world are listening. An … Continue reading →

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Radiation in parts of the Marshall Islands is far higher than Chernobyl, study says via Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2019/07/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By SUSANNE RUSTJUL 15, 2019 | 12:00 PM  Think of the most radioactive landscapes on the planet and the names Chernobyl and Fukushima may come to mind. Yet research published Monday suggests that parts of the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific, where the United … Continue reading →

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Bikini Islanders Still Deal With Fallout of US Nuclear Tests, 70 Years Later via Truthout

Posted on 2016/07/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] The subsequent underwater bomb detonation didn’t go so well either. It unexpectedly produced a spray of highly radioactive water that extensively contaminated everything it landed on. Naval inspectors couldn’t even return to the area to assess ship damage because … Continue reading →

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Marshall Islands sue Britain, India and Pakistan over nuclear weapons via The Guardian

Posted on 2016/01/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Archipelago where notorious Bikini Atoll test took place tells international court that nuclear powers have not lived up to disarmament obligations The tiny Marshall Islands will seek to persuade the UN’s highest court to take up a lawsuit against India, … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Victims: Will We Help Vets Who Cleaned Up After Atomic Blasts? via Civil Beat

Posted on 2016/01/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Hawaii Congressman Mark Takai pushes to compensate military personnel exposed to radioactive soil and debris in the Marshall Islands. […] Highly radioactive. From 1946 to 1958, 67 nuclear weapons were detonated in the Marshall Islands. Enewetak Atoll and Bikini Atoll … Continue reading →

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