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Melting ice will expose Cold War toxic base


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Researchers have just identified what might just be the most surreal thing to emerge from the ice: the remnants of a covert U.S. Army base teeming with radioactive waste, abandoned decades ago in northwestern Greenland.

A lot of messy stuff threatens to be exposed as the ice disappears, including some 200,000 litres of diesel fuel, 240,000 litres of sewage and waste water, some toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)—and an unknown amount of radioactive coolant, left over from the site’s nuclear generator, according to a new study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Camp Century was built in 1959, at the height of the Cold War, beneath the surface of the northwestern Greenland ice sheet. There, the US studied deployment of nuclear missiles against Russia.

http://canadajournal.net/science/melting-ice-will-expose-toxic-base-says-new-research-50722-2016/

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leave it to the infamous USA to destroy everything they touch....yes lets leave waste everywhere, here in canada they did same thing with chemicals under the ground, in ponds and god knows where else. they should be responsible for cleanup considering they made it

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On ‎9‎/‎27‎/‎2016 at 4:40 PM, geraldnewfie said:

leave it to the infamous USA to destroy everything they touch....yes lets leave waste everywhere, here in canada they did same thing with chemicals under the ground, in ponds and god knows where else. they should be responsible for cleanup considering they made it

OK -The next time some country needs help we should tell you to stuff it!  Back in WWII times burying was the way to dispose of stuff.

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Okay then ... why not bury it all in say ... Alaska ... Death Valley .... or near the border with Mexico ?

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57 minutes ago, third_eye said:

Okay then ... why not bury it all in say ... Alaska ... Death Valley .... or near the border with Mexico ?

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Ya know...there are Americans who live near the border, right? 

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After the 2nd world war the military near my home town put unused out dated ammunition on the ice on middle of lakes in in the springtime just before the thaw so that they would fall into the water to dispose of excess inventory. as a side note Canada produced enough ammunition to kill every man woman and child 3 times during that war, good thing nobody could shoot straight and make every shot count.:rolleyes:

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On 9/29/2016 at 11:23 AM, third_eye said:

Okay then ... why not bury it all in say ... Alaska ... Death Valley .... or near the border with Mexico ?

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bury it in their own country!

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On 9/29/2016 at 10:06 AM, paperdyer said:

OK -The next time some country needs help we should tell you to stuff it!  Back in WWII times burying was the way to dispose of stuff.

nobody needs US help, all they do is destroy **** 

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