UN chief concerned nuclear 'coffin' leaking in Pacific - Cactus Crater Containment Structure; Runit Island, Enewetak Atoll

UN chief concerned nuclear 'coffin' leaking in Pacific

[Agence France Presse (AFP); 16 May 2019]



Runit or Cactus Dome - Runit Island, Enewetak Atoll




Back to Bikini
(Evan LUBOFSKY, Oceanus Magazine; June 5, 2017)
https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/back-to-bikini/


Selected Research Articles:


 Lingering radioactivity at the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls
(BUESSELER et al., 2018)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717328139/pdfft?isDTMRedir=true&download=true

 "The World, We Think She Start Over Again":  Nuclear Testing and the Marshall Islands, 1946 - 1958
(MEADE and MEADE, 2018)
https://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-UR-18-30848

A Visual Description of the Concrete Exterior of Cactus Crater Containment Structure
(Terry HAMILTON, 2013)
https://marshallislands.llnl.gov/ccc/Hamilton_LLNL-TR-648143_final.pdf

Frequency distribution, isotopic composition and physical characterization of plutonium-bearing particles from the Fig-Quince zone on Runit Island, Enewetak Atoll
(HAMILTON et al., 2009)


Video:


This Concrete Dome Holds a Leaking Toxic Timebomb | Foreign Correspondent
[ABC News (Australia); November 27, 2017]





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