Posts Tagged ‘Bikini Atoll’

Row over who controls Bikini Island’s multi-million dollar Trust

Thursday, December 14th, 2017
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The United States Department of the Interior has given give Bikini islanders displaced by US nuclear weapons tests complete control of a multi-million dollar trust fund. This has sparked a leading US Senator to intervene to reverse the decision, and prompted concern at home. Until now, Federal officials and leaders of the Bikini Council met Read more

Concern about cracks in dome of nuclear waste tomb

Tuesday, August 4th, 2015

Enewetak Atoll, better known as Bikini Atoll, is home to the Runit concrete dome. It was constructed in 1979 to temporarily store nuclear waste produced from nuclear testing by the United States military during the Cold War. Residents have expressed concerns about cracks which are slowly developing in the dome’s concrete surface. The US Department Read more