The United States Buried Nuclear Waste Abroad. Environment Change Could Unearth It
This story initially appeared on Grist and belongs to the Climate Desk cooperation.Ariana Tibon remained in college at the University of Hawaii in 2017 when she saw the picture online: a black-and-white photo of a male holding an infant. The caption stated: "Nelson Anjain getting his infant kept track of on March 2, 1954, by an AEC RadSafe employee on Rongelap 2 days after ʻBravo.'"Tibon had actually never ever seen the guy previously. She acknowledged the name as her great-grandfather's. At the time, he was surviving on Rongelap in the Marshall Islands when the United States performed Castle Bravo, the biggest of 67 nuclear weapon tests there throughout the Cold War. The tests displaced and sickened Indigenous individuals, poisoned fish, overthrew standard food practices, and triggered ca...