Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, May 9th: Waste? What nuclear waste?

Dat tropical water, dat blue sky, dat beach, dem palm trees … and dat concrete dome of covered up nuclear waste that is seeping radiation in the ocean through groundwater.

In the late 1950s, the US government decided that it was not a sustainable, decent or even human practice to deport an entire population under the pretext that they are not as technologically advanced, in order to test nuclear weapons – an obvious advancement of Western civilisation – on their homeland, levelling with an unprecedented brutality (#thefrenchalsonukedthepacific) entire islands. Maybe they thought that homes, fauna, flora, livelihoods and culture wouldn't all be affected. Hell, they even probably had a study to prove the senior government official signing on this that “it is all in accordance with our safe working policies”!

That official or his clone then proceeded to devise the most demented and destructive waste burying program I have ever heard of: 1. Just dig a hole in a great looking atoll: Enewatak.

2. Bury the waste.

3. Cover it with concrete.

4. Walk away. Just walk away.

Enjoy the pictures below and let's play a game: find the dome.

Radioactivally yours,

Vicou the Sea Gypsy

Let's get radioactive together

Find the dome

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