The secret American base may thaw out in Greenland
NASA has published a map of melting glaciers in Greenland, under which is hidden the abandoned US Camp Century base with nuclear, chemical and biological waste - one of the most secret objects of the Cold War. Reports about it Popular Mechanics.
“As part of the Iceworm project, the Americans planned to deploy a network of rocket launchers under the Greenland ice sheet. According to the Pentagon, it was planned to build a system of tunnels about 4000 kilometers long in the ice sheet of the island and place around 600 nuclear missiles that could reach the territory of the USSR in case of war. To this end, Camp Century was built on the glacier 2000 meters in the north-west of Greenland, ” - writes the edition.
The works started in 1958. An 21 tunnel was laid, with a total length of 3 km, and some social facilities. The work involved 200 people. However, it was later found out that “the movement of glaciers is more intense than expected, therefore all military targets were inevitable destruction”.
In 1996 g, the project was closed and the base was decommissioned. But "its infrastructure and waste, including radioactive, chemical and biological substances, remained in the glacier," the publication says.
Last year, scientists have found that global warming will cause toxic waste to go out from under a thick layer of ice and into the ocean.
Of the documents declassified by Americans, it is known that “no less than 200 thousand diesel fuel and 240 thousand liters of waste water containing polychlorinated biphenyls and radioactive coolant from a nuclear reactor”, which supplied the military with electricity, are stored at the base.
According to scientists, the Camp Century base should thaw out around 2090. Glacier decreases at a rate of about 3-m per year.
“As part of the Iceworm project, the Americans planned to deploy a network of rocket launchers under the Greenland ice sheet. According to the Pentagon, it was planned to build a system of tunnels about 4000 kilometers long in the ice sheet of the island and place around 600 nuclear missiles that could reach the territory of the USSR in case of war. To this end, Camp Century was built on the glacier 2000 meters in the north-west of Greenland, ” - writes the edition.
The works started in 1958. An 21 tunnel was laid, with a total length of 3 km, and some social facilities. The work involved 200 people. However, it was later found out that “the movement of glaciers is more intense than expected, therefore all military targets were inevitable destruction”.
In 1996 g, the project was closed and the base was decommissioned. But "its infrastructure and waste, including radioactive, chemical and biological substances, remained in the glacier," the publication says.
Last year, scientists have found that global warming will cause toxic waste to go out from under a thick layer of ice and into the ocean.
Of the documents declassified by Americans, it is known that “no less than 200 thousand diesel fuel and 240 thousand liters of waste water containing polychlorinated biphenyls and radioactive coolant from a nuclear reactor”, which supplied the military with electricity, are stored at the base.
According to scientists, the Camp Century base should thaw out around 2090. Glacier decreases at a rate of about 3-m per year.
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