U.S. put nuclear waste under a dome on a Pacific island. Now it’s cracking open

“I’ve just been with the president of the Marshall Islands [Hilda Heine], who is very worried because there is a risk of leaking of radioactive materials that are contained in a kind of coffin in the area,” Guterres said in Fiji, Agence France-Presse reported. Beginning in 1977, the Defense Nuclear Agency began a sustained cleanup of the nuclear debris left over on Enewetak Atoll, a slender ring of coral islands in the Marshall Islands’ northwestern corner. But the deal also settled “all claims, past, present and future” tied to the nuclear testing and left the dome in the care of the island government.

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