Failed Military Cleanup Exposes Marshall Island Residents to Leaking Radioactive “Tomb”


A 60-year-old military nuclear clean-up project, known as the Runit Dome, has begun leaking radioactive materials in the vicinity of the Marshall Islands, as Jess Cockerill reported in a March 2026 article for the science publication, Science Alert. The Runit Dome is situated on Runit Island, between Australia and Hawaii,…

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