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Runit Island

Island in Enewetak Atoll, uninhabited since the 1970s cleanup, with the Runit Dome on its north end.

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  1. Report on the Status of the Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands (Report to Congress, June 2020), U.S. Department of Energy, Jun 2020. Primary record
    The Runit Dome is a containment structure on Runit Island, located on Enewetak Atoll.
    The containment structure, built in the late 1970s, contains over 100,000 cubic yards of radioactively contaminated soil and debris that were encapsulated in concrete (waste pile) inside an unlined nuclear test crater
    The Runit Dome is not in any immediate danger of collapse or failure
    there are no data to suggest that the dome, or more specifically, the radioactive material encapsulated within the containment structure, is currently having a measurable adverse effect on the surrounding environment
    The main risk posed by the dome will be derived from the flow of contaminated groundwater from beneath the containment structure into the local marine environment.
    the Government of the Marshall Islands assumed responsibility for, and control of, the utilization of areas in the Marshall Islands affected by the nuclear testing program, thereby ending the U.S. role and responsibility for the Runit Dome.
    The site has remained a concern to the people of Enewetak and their leadership.
    Runit Island has remained uninhabited to the present day.
    Construction of the containment structure was completed in 1979.
  2. Report of the Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and wastes, Calin Georgescu, Addendum: Mission to the Marshall Islands and the United States of America (A/HRC/21/48/Add.1), United Nations Human Rights Council, 3 Sep 2012. Primary record
    He received information indicating that the structural integrity of the nuclear waste container is substandard
  3. UN chief Guterres concerned nuclear coffin leaking in Pacific (AFP), Al Jazeera, 16 May 2019. Scholarship & press
    I’ve just been with the president of the Marshall Islands [Hilda Heine], who is very worried because there is a risk of leaking of radioactive materials that are contained in a kind of coffin in the area.
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