mo4ch:>‘A total lie’: US never bothered to secure its Pacific nuclear waste ‘coffin’ from leaks | Mo4ch News

Published time: 17 May, 2019 08:09 The US has failed to prevent the Runit Dome temporary nuclear waste storage site from leaking into the ocean, leaving the inhabitants of Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands and cleanup workers with an array of health problems.“There was never any lining put in that dome,” Ernest Davis, an Enewetak Atoll cleanup veteran, told RT, noting that the US government apparently had never planned to replace the temporary dome with a permanent containment structure that would be properly sealed from radiation leaks. “Nobody said anything about going back in and removing it or making it permanent. We were told that it was permanent.”
“I don't think it was ever [the US government’s] intention to further clean up the island. It was too costly,” Brooke Takala Abraham, who lives in the Marshall Islands, told RT.Also on rt.comCold War ‘nuclear coffin’ leaking radioactive waste from US tests into Pacific Ocean – UN chiefThe United States detonated 43 atomic bombs…