{"id":3522,"date":"2019-05-21T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/64.156.26.201\/*sergneri.net\/httpdocs\/wordpress\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2019-05-21T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T19:38:00","slug":"what-could-go-wrong-the-u-s-put-nuclear-waste-under-a-dome-on-a-pacific-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/05\/21\/what-could-go-wrong-the-u-s-put-nuclear-waste-under-a-dome-on-a-pacific-island\/","title":{"rendered":"What could go wrong? The U.S. put nuclear waste under a dome on a Pacific island."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2019\/05\/20\/us-put-nuclear-waste-under-dome-pacific-island-now-its-cracking-open\/?utm_term=.98de4637edea\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post <\/a> published an engaging essay about a nuclear waste depository on the Marshall Islands. Some good background and discussion of the meeting of two critical issues, climate change and nuclear waste. Beyond the comments from a shill or two from the pro-nuclear camp, the concerns of us common folk is quite clear in the comments section. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The staying power of that material is the problem. It\u2019s still there, only 18 inches of concrete away from waters that are rising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat dome is the connection between the nuclear age and the climate change age,\u201d climate change activist Alson Kelen told the Australian broadcaster.<br \/>\nCracks have reportedly started to appear in the dome. Part of the threat is that the crater was never properly lined, meaning that rising seawater could breach the structural integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom of the dome is just what was left behind by the nuclear weapons explosion,\u201d Michael Gerrard, the chair of Columbia University\u2019s Earth Institute, told the ABC. \u201cIt\u2019s permeable soil. There was no effort to line it. And therefore, the seawater is inside the dome.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post published an engaging essay about a nuclear waste depository on the Marshall Islands. Some good background and discussion of the meeting of two critical issues, climate change and nuclear waste. Beyond the comments from a shill or two from the pro-nuclear camp, the concerns of us common folk is quite clear in &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/05\/21\/what-could-go-wrong-the-u-s-put-nuclear-waste-under-a-dome-on-a-pacific-island\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7,12,13,15,17],"tags":[2009,2006,2007,2011,2005,1222,2013,2008,2010,2012,2014],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-3522","6":"format-standard","7":"category-climate-change","8":"category-ethical-and-green-living","9":"category-faits-divers","10":"category-nuclear-industry","11":"category-politics","12":"category-science","13":"category-thinking-about","14":"post_tag-atomic-heritage-foundation","15":"post_tag-bikini-atoll","16":"post_tag-castle-bravo","17":"post_tag-enewetak-atoll","18":"post_tag-marshall-islands","19":"post_tag-nuclear-waste","20":"post_tag-plutonium-239","21":"post_tag-radioactive","22":"post_tag-radioactive-material","23":"post_tag-runit-island","24":"post_tag-toxic-substance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}