By 2090 Greenland may be a zone of ecological disaster. According to the calculations of scientists from York University (Canada), global warming will result in the release of nuclear waste dumped in the United States Greenland glaciers
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in the article researchers published in the journal of Geophysical Research Letters, it says that in 1959 the US government tried to implement in Greenland secret project called “Ice worm”. Under a thick layer of ice (at a depth of approximately 35 meters) base “Century” was built. It was planned to hold a tunnel system in Greenland ice sheet and place in it a few hundred nuclear missiles aimed at the Soviet Union.
But the project was soon shelved, and in every sense of the word. Experts have concluded that the Greenland ice sheet – is not static, but moves slowly. The base was taken out of operation, but its infrastructure and waste left by the 35-meter thick ice.
conserved natural way were radioactive and chemical substances. Among them – 200 thousand liters of diesel fuel and 240 thousand liters of waste water. In these waters, in theory, radioactive coolant from nuclear generators can be contained, which supplied energy “Century”. According to scientists, these wastes pose a serious threat to the environment.
Simulation of climatic conditions, conducted by Canadian scientists, indicates that in a few decades, there is a global melting of the glacier. And the military base would be “reactivated”. The scale of the potential ekokatastrofy hard to judge, but potentially they can be extremely negative.
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