Putting the ‘nuclear coffin’ in perspective
Marine chemist weighs in on leaking radioactive dome in the Pacific
There has been a flurry of headlines this summer about a “nuclear coffin” leaking radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean. The coffin—a bomb crater filled with radioactive soil on a tiny island in the Marshall Islands—sits under a 350-foot-wide concrete lid known as Runit Dome. It’s arguably the region’s most visible scar from a series of U.S. nuclear weapons tests that took place off Bikini and Enewetak Atolls between 1946 and 1958.
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Putting the ‘nuclear coffin’ in perspective: Marine chemist weighs in on leaking radioactive dome in the Pacific
