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Nuclear waste in a South Seas paradise

February 19, 2025

In the 1950s, the US carried out nuclear weapons tests on the Enewetak Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands. The resulting radioactive waste is still stored under the concrete “Runit Dome”. Now that’s at risk from heat and rising sea levels.

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