The tropical blue skies over the southern Pacific Ocean were enveloped by towering mushroom clouds lingering over the Marshall Islands in 1954 as the United States continued its testing of nuclear weapons.
The extensive nuclear bomb testing blanketed the islands in radioactive ash, covering it in the fine, white, powder-like substance. Children, unaware of what the radioactive ash was, played in the"snow" and ate it according to the Atomic Heritage Foundation.Today, there are growing concerns that the temporary containment of the nuclear waste resulting from those tests is leaking into the Pacific Ocean and could be cracked wide open from the next storm that rolls by.
July 25, 1946 - A nuclear weapon test by the American military at Bikini Atoll, Micronesia. The explosion was part of Operation Crossroads.As this was considered a temporary solution, the crater bottom was not lined with impervious material, which would have prevented radioactive waste from entering the below aquifers and Pacific Ocean. After the material was piled into the crater, an 18-inch thick concrete dome was positioned on top of it as a temporary containment.
Un regalito de China en Argentina Cristina permitió laconstrucción de una planta nuclear al su de la Argentina Y en las Islas MASHAL los Ingleses hicieron la suya
🤓🤓🤓🤓 Nuclear waste loses its radioactivity by time. Ocean Salt accelerates that. Cracked concrete isn't necessary failure. Any concrete have ever been poured, cracks. Let's focus on something more important. The world post the UN & the three economic horns. Asia, EU & USA.
“The United States conducted 67 nuclear weapon tests from 1946 to 1958 on the pristine Marshall Islands.” this is horrifying! How could one country jeopardize the future of all people living on this planet? Horrible country
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