[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, GLOBAL: Runit Island (Marshall Islands) dome may be leaking

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dome over contaminated nuclear blast site is leaking — expert warns risk from lethal landfill could be ‘devastating’

By Ben Cost
California Post
March 20, 2026

Experts are having a nuclear meltdown.

Cracks in a dome over a contaminated nuclear blast site have sparked fears that the containment area has sprung a dangerous leak — which could snowball amid rising seas.

“We worry the integrity of the dome could be in jeopardy,” Columbia University chemistry professor Ivana Nikolic-Hughes, who witnessed the cracks while measuring radiation levels in 2018, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The fiasco can be traced back to 1958, when the US dropped an 18-kiloton bomb on the Marshall Islands’ Runit Island as part of a series of nuclear tests that were conducted on South Pacific Islands in the 1940s and ’50s.

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For the entire article, see
https://nypost.com/2026/03/20/science/dome-over-contaminated-nuclear-blast-site-is-leaking/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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