Melting glaciers may lead to the release of nuclear waste – Hour News Channel 24KZ

Clarifies that this could happen by the end of the century.

Global warming in the coming decades will lead to the fact that the radioactive waste from an abandoned US military base under the Greenland ice sheet will begin to be distributed because of its melting, according to Gazeta.ru, citing a study from scientists University of Zurich.

it is reported that the cause of the infection can become base “Century”, which implemented the project “Ice worm”, according to which under the Greenland ice sheet should had 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 is movable.

It is noted that at a depth of 35 m It may be under the ice an unknown amount of a radioactive substance, which will spread along with the melting of the glacier. Clarifies that this could happen by the end of the century.