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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.
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.
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.
Ok well fine, ignore the words 'climate change', and this issue is still a pretty big ****ing problem, right?
Not really, #1: The dome is not leaking, the Guardian is lying (as usual).
#2: There is more hard radiation in the open lagoon than under the dome. The only reason the dome was construct was to bury the Pu-239 scattered around the island (Pu-239 can be used to make more bombs).
The atoll had a huge incinerator designed to vastly reduce all the low-level radioactive waste by increasing hi-temp staged incineration.
A good friend of mine worked there for Bechtel for about 4 years. I almost got a job there myself.
But all that ended when a rare mid-Pacific Hurrican kicked up and washed the incinerator and most of the other buildings and facilities away, and nothing has been rebuilt since except for the small service buildings that supply the landing strip. Marshall Island is the only commercial jet refueling spot in the middle of the Pacific.
Those jobs paid very well, but the job application was very restrictive; no married person could apply, no single person with minor children, and no couples with children. A childless couple could apply. People with any chronic illness, no matter how trifling could apply.
The reason for this was distance. Marshall Island is so far out in the Pacific that it literally costs a fortune to move an employee there. All the supply is done by ship, but the people are flown in, and can only bring what they can carry on a plane.
One there, housing and everything needed for a home was provided, including food. Cooked food, available in many different forms 24 hours a day. Transportation wasn't needed as the island is so small, but a person could buy a used bike and re-sell it to a newcomer, so there were a lot of cheap bikes. My buddy literally could not spend the $200 cash he first kept out of his paycheck. Everything was free.
But at the same time, if a person's mother died, the person got one trip back to Hawaii to go on to the mainland, and that was it. A second trip was a termination unless it was equally or more serious, and then, there was no 3rd trip to follow without termination. It simply cost Bechtel too much to get people so far out there to allow them to go home until their hitch was over.
Everyone signed on for 2 years. There was a substantial bonus for re-signing on the island. There were workers there who had not left the island for over 20 years.
All of it is gone now, for good, ever since ca. 1994 or thereabouts. There hasn't been another mid-ocean hurricane since then, either.
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