US decided to deal with radiation leak from Runit’s dome

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The Runite Dome, also known as the “Cactus Dome” or “Tomb,” is a repository containing about 111 cubic meters. yards (000 thousand cubic meters) of radioactive waste. It was created by the United States after several nuclear tests on the Envetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean between 85 and 1946.

In May, UN Secretary General António Guterres, along with Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine, expressed concern about the potential leakage of radioactive material from the facility, which could be caused by a rise in the water level around the facility. According to Guterres, Heine was "very concerned."

The Pacific was a victim in the past, as we all know, as a result of dozens of nuclear tests weapons above land, on land and under water in the Marshall Islands. The consequences of these actions were very dramatic.

- said Guterrish then.

Against this background, Washington decided to demonstrate its readiness to deal with the radiation threat. On December 20, US President Donald Trump signed a bill on the country's defense budget, in which the “tomb” is described as a potentially dangerous object. In this regard, the US Department of Energy has been instructed to report to Congress within six months on its condition and to develop a “detailed plan to repair the dome” (which locals call the “nuclear grave”).

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    1. +7
      27 December 2019 02: 43
      It’s cowardly Guterres to directly accuse the USA of a barbaric attitude to the coral islands ... and after all there are such miracles and natural beauties one can say the artistic creation of God ... the French also spoiled a lot in such places.
      For many millennia, nature will have to correct their dirty tricks.
      1. -16
        27 December 2019 02: 59
        Quote: The same Lech
        It’s cowardly Guterres to directly accuse the USA of a barbaric attitude to the coral islands ... and after all there are such miracles and natural beauties one can say the artistic creation of God ... the French also spoiled a lot in such places.
        For many millennia, nature will have to correct their dirty tricks.

        we, too, did not particularly stand on ceremony with the Kazakhs in Semipalatinsk ...
        1. +4
          27 December 2019 03: 08
          In Semipalatinsk, all the same, minimal damage was done to nature ... most of the tests of nuclear weapons were conducted underground.
          Much more damage was caused by the explosion on Novaya Zemlya.
          1. 0
            28 December 2019 11: 19
            Striped only like to teach others what and how to do the right thing on this earth. After all, they consider themselves to be an exclusive nation .. And they themselves shit all over the world, so much so that then all of humanity will have to "disentangle". And by the way, where is their vaunted technology?
        2. +10
          27 December 2019 05: 08
          Semipalatinsk is a Russian city. No Indians were born there.
          1. -12
            27 December 2019 05: 41
            Quote: pmkemcity
            Semipalatinsk is a Russian city. No Indians were born there

            Semipalatinsk Oblast is the administrative unit of the Kazakh SSR (1939-1991) and the Republic of Kazakhstan (1991-1997). The administrative center is Semipalatinsk.
            1. +2
              27 December 2019 05: 56
              Quote: Aerodrome
              The administrative center is Semipalatinsk.

              There is no such glorious city "Semipalatinsk" on the map of Kazakhstan, there is the city of Semey ....
              1. -1
                27 December 2019 06: 31
                Quote: Serg Koma
                Quote: Aerodrome
                The administrative center is Semipalatinsk.

                There is no such glorious city "Semipalatinsk" on the map of Kazakhstan, there is the city of Semey ....

                it greatly helped health ...
                1. +3
                  28 December 2019 11: 33
                  we, too, did not particularly stand on ceremony with the Kazakhs in Semipalatinsk ...

                  The big question is about "we"! We are Russians, and you are unlikely) An article about how the United States is destroying such beauty in the ocean! What has Russia to do with Semipalatinsk? Or do the bots of the Sumerians reduce everything to Russia?)))
                2. 0
                  29 December 2019 06: 41
                  drinks
                  Quote: Aerodrome
                  Semipalatinsk Oblast is the administrative unit of the Kazakh SSR (1939-1991) and the Republic of Kazakhstan (1991-1997). The administrative center is Semipalatinsk.

                  Sorry, but in your post, you do not mention the health of the population of the city, but state the fact of nationality, I just made additions to your post with clarifications of the modern name of the settlement.
                  Following your logic -
                  Quote: Aerodrome
                  administrative unit of the Kazakh SSR (1939-1991) and Republic of Kazakhstan

                  И answer (not even a question what )
                  Quote: Aerodrome
                  this is strong helped health...

                  And then ellipsis (???) - "Serves to indicate interruptions in speech, incomplete statements or omissions in the text."
                  If "helped your health" (you have without quotes), please share what? Do not stop the story with ellipsis on the most interesting laughing
            2. +10
              27 December 2019 06: 45
              The seven-chamber fortress was founded by the tsarist governor Vasily Cheredov and his detachment in 1718 18 km lower along the Irtysh from the current position of the city in connection with the Decree of Peter I on the protection of the eastern lands and the construction of the Irtysh fortifications. The fortress was fortified and fully armed already in the fall of 1718 under the supervision of Colonel Stupin [14]. Currently, the location of the Semipalatian fortress is called the "Old Fortress" and is a resting place for citizens.
            3. Ren
              0
              27 December 2019 07: 33
              Quote: Aerodrome
              Semipalatinsk Oblast is the administrative unit of the Kazakh SSR (1939-1991) and the Republic of Kazakhstan (1991-1997). The administrative center is Semipalatinsk.

              CossackAutonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (CossackSky Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, КАЗАКcamp) from June 15, 1925 (ASSR as part of the RSFSR).
        3. +1
          27 December 2019 16: 57
          Quote: Aerodrome
          we, too, did not particularly stand on ceremony with the Kazakhs in Semipalatinsk ...

          ======
          I beg your pardon, "airfield"! Are you a "specialist" in tanks (your comment on the T-90 in Syria), in aviation, or is it in nuclear weapons ???? request
          In all THREE cases - your "comments" are somehow "off topic" .....
          You will somehow "decide" !!! request
          1. +1
            28 December 2019 11: 37
            I beg your pardon, "airfield"! Are you a "specialist" in tanks (your comment on the T-90 in Syria), in aviation, or is it in nuclear weapons ????

            He’s purely trolling Russian here and no more) Another Sumer, who was digging a black sea with a shovel ..)
    2. +2
      27 December 2019 02: 55
      The ocean is always unpredictable, and this dome is located at low elevations. Due to global warming, the ocean level may rise rapidly in the short term, and then today's dome strengthening will have to be modernized again. In general, when arranging such objects, one must keep in mind that with the complete melting of the snows of Greenland, the ocean level can rise by 5 meters. And the melting of Antarctica can add another 60-65 meters. hi
      1. +3
        27 December 2019 06: 52
        If the ocean level really rises, then everyone will no longer have this storage facility.
        Although yes, the place is chosen strangely.
    3. +8
      27 December 2019 03: 27
      how was it possible to build such a structure on the seashore?
      1. +6
        27 December 2019 05: 51
        how was it possible to build such a structure on the seashore?

        "Americans, sir"))
    4. Well, the Americans will repair them there ...
    5. +4
      27 December 2019 08: 31
      I would like to hear the indignation of Greta Tuborg ....
      1. +1
        27 December 2019 14: 03
        I don’t think that she heard something about the atoll since she doesn’t teach geography but is fighting for something there ...
    6. +1
      27 December 2019 09: 24
      I wonder who was smart enough to bury so much waste in such an unsafe place? This is what you need to be crazy, or dumb, or a cynic to bury all this stuff on the atoll - a narrow strip of land where the ocean is around. I don’t give a damn, the main thing is not to be near at hand ...
      1. +1
        27 December 2019 11: 43
        we see there infected graves and the whole environment are buried, everything that remained after the explosion and was not carried away by the current.
    7. +1
      27 December 2019 11: 59
      What about Fukushima? 10 years have passed ... go still flowing ... and ... quietly.
      1. +1
        27 December 2019 15: 25
        Everything merges, sir, and they constantly write about it bully
        Yes, from the last
        In Japan, they suggested draining into the ocean or evaporating water from the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant http://www.atomic-energy.ru/news/2019/12/23/100289
    8. +1
      27 December 2019 12: 16
      The main thing is that this would not affect Russia
    9. +2
      27 December 2019 15: 34
      An interesting sarcophagus, even no identification marks - anyone can come and walk on it barefoot calmly, you can build a house on top, or for example check concrete for strength - blow it up. If it is not guarded, then it is not dangerous, why not. Strange Americans ....
    10. +2
      27 December 2019 15: 37
      Here are the bastards, littered the paradise for thousands of years.

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