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

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/decades-after-the-us-buried-nuclear-waste-abroad-climate-change-could-unearth-it/
- Published: 2024-03-03T09:30:21-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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.’” […] Click here to view original web page at grist.org