Concrete Dome Housing Nuclear Waste in Pacific is Crumbling

摘要

It's called "The Runit Dome," but locals call it "The Tomb." hi the 1970s, the United States built the huge concrete structure in the Marshall Islands to house nuclear waste amid bomb tests taking place in the region. But over the years, Mother Nature has taken a toll on the site and its structural stability. Various reports have outlined the slow deterioration of the dome, and the potential threat it poses to the environment. Now, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is pushing the federal government to release more information about the site. Gabbard included an amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act that would require the government to provide an unclassified report on the status of the dome. "The Marshallese people are gravely concerned about environmental threats to the integrity of the storage site and the impact on their country," Gabbard said, in a news release.