The Crumbling, Leaking Radioactive Dome in the Pacific

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 8, 2015

The Runit Dome on the Marshall Islands houses 111,000 cubic yards of radioactive waste leftover from US nuclear testing in the Pacific. It’s also leaking. Kim Wall of The Guardian explains what’s happening with the dome and the threats posed to it by decay and climate change.

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