UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has recently toured the South Pacific to discuss climate change. In Fiji last week, he told a crowd about “a kind of coffin” built by the US in the Marshall Islands to house the deadly radioactive debris from the 1980s. The “coffin” is the product of a belated American response to Read more
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
Displaying pictures of decaying nuclear waste barrels and a girl with a brain tumor, Tao Aborigines from Lanyu (also known as Orchid Island) yesterday accused the government and Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) of trying to annihilate the tribe by storing nuclear waste on the island for three decades. “I cry everytime I tell the story Read more