Decades after the US buried nuclear waste abroad, climate change could unearth it

Photo caption: U.S. military officers watch nuclear waste being dumped on Runit Island in the Marshall Islands. Photo source: Department of Defense. Article by Anita Hofschneider. Grist – February 26, 2024. Report: Government Accountability Office.

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.’” […]

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