Buried Nuclear Waste From the Cold War Could Resurface as Ice Sheets Melt

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Buried Nuclear Waste From the Cold War Could Resurface as Ice Sheets Melt
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Decades after the U.S. buried nuclear waste abroad, climate change could unearth it.

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaiʻi in 2017 when she saw the photo online: a black-and-white picture of a man holding a baby. The caption said: “Nelson Anjain getting his baby monitored on March 2, 1954, by an AEC RadSafe team member on Rongelap two days after ʻBravo.ʻ” Tibon had never seen the man before. But she recognized the name as her great-grandfatherʻs.

” The authors of the GAO study wrote that Greenland and Denmark haven’t proposed any cleanup plans, but also cited studies that say much of the nuclear waste has already decayed and will be diluted by melting ice. However, those studies do note that chemical waste such as polychlorinated biphenyls, man-made chemicals better known as PCBs that are carcinogenic, “may be the most consequential waste at Camp Century.” The report summarizes disagreements between Marshall Islands officials and the U.

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