Media: radioactive waste US bases get out of the Greenland ice sheet – BBC

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Global warming in the coming decades will lead to the fact that the radioactive waste from an abandoned American military base under the Greenland ice sheet will begin to be distributed because of its melting, according to NPR with reference to the study by researchers at the University of Zurich.

it is reported that the cause of the infection can become base “Century” in which the project was implemented in «Ice worm» , according to which under the Greenland ice sheet were to be placed nuclear missiles aimed at the Soviet Union. The database was created in 1959, but soon was suspended because of concerns that the shield is not static and mobile.

It is noted that at a depth of 35 meters under the ice may be an unknown quantity of radioactive substances, which will begin to be distributed together with the melting of the glacier. Clarifies that this could happen by the end of the century.

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