Disasters we didn't count on - Nuclear Waste tombs

Nuclear Waste Tomb

When we think about that we will pay for everything, that we have done in the past. I am not just want to threat you. Actually, I want you to start think how much damage caused by the humanity without taking responsibility. Think of the nuclear tests in North Korea, but USA have done more than enought on the Pacific area.

"Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, which is a collection of 29 coral atolls across 1,156 islands. Of course, the U.S. didn't end with nuclear weapons. The Pentagon also dropped biological weapons on the islands."

That was past, what it was like to be disturbed. We might think. But the situation is not very easy. After the tests period the wastes and contaminated soild were dumped into the Runit Dome, a crater left from a nuclear detonation, and covered all that with concrete. The site holds more than 3.1 million cubic feet of U.S.-produced radioactive soil and debris also include lethal amounts of plutonium.

Now, rising sea levels and temperatures have begun to crack open the dome. As that happens, plutonium is being dumped into the Pacific. the United States says it's the responsibility of Marshall Island officials to handle the fallout but we know that is not truth, this waste is their responsibility.

The president of the Marshall islands, Hilda Heine  is can not bare their behavior and want to solve this as soon as possible. Moreover,   last month, the Marshall Islands declared a national climate crisis. In a tweet, Heine wrote,

"As one of only four low-lying coral atoll nations in the world, the failure of the international community to adequately respond to the global climate crisis of its own making holds particularly grave consequences."

In March 1954, the U.S. conducted its largest nuclear detonation ever, called Castle Bravo, at Bikini Atoll. According to the Atomic Heritage Foundation, Bravo was over than 1,000 times more powerful than Little Boy, the atomic bomb that demaged Hiroshima.

Approximately five hours after detonation, it began to rain radioactive fallout at Rongelap. Within hours, the atoll was covered with a fine, white, powdered-like substance. No one knew it was radioactive fallout. Like in Chernobyl (1986) no one warning the civilians, that was dangerous for their health and the children were played in like in the snow.

Vice reported that birth defects are so common on the islands that there's a number of words used locally to describe them.

In July, Columbia University found that radiation in parts of the islands is higher than Chernobyl and Fukushima. With the climate crises this could be much more worse if the tombs opened soon.

I know, you have never know that, this kind of experiments damaged one of the most beautiful groups of island in the world. Never heard about it and do not care maybe because you will never be able to get there because of the money.

What have we done with that? This is an old story...Yeah it could be old but still not being finished.

As I started this article I would like to start think of build in yourself the responsibility, because as you experienced the leaders did not care the enviroment, your home, climate, your health. You have to take out of the control or supervise their acts. That's what we have to do as climate activist. Maybe it is too late to step out of comfort zone and leave out the system as we always relied on.

Need more courage that you have ever imagined, but you are not alone in the world. Survive means that face with the consequences and act. And after whatever will happen in the future you will be prepared to build the new society system.