The Dome Is “Cactus”. Looks like a giant radioactive waste disposal (photos)
A huge block of concrete in the middle of an island Paradise.
Upstairs
A small island of Runit in the enewetak Atoll in the Pacific ocean could be a great resort if it were not for one circumstance. The fact that the Atoll, which is part of the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1962 the US military conducted nuclear tests.
In 1977, the American authorities decided to clear the island from hazardous waste and in three years collected more than 100 thousand cubic meters of contaminated soil. Then it was mixed with cement and buried in the crater with a width of 106 meters and a depth of 9 meters at the North end of the island of Runit. Giant crater, where buried nuclear waste, left over from testing bombs “Cactus”, which blew up here in 1958.
After the completion of the dome “Cactus” in 1980, the US government declared the southern and Western Islands in the Atoll safe for habitation, and the inhabitants of the Islands in enewetak returned home. Now the dome come to see tourists, but scientists warn that this is not the safest place on Earth.
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