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Cold War-era radioactive waste stored under Greenland's ice could be released as global temperatures rise

2016-08-06 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Global warming could release radioactive waste stored in an abandoned Cold War-era U.S. military camp deep under Greenland's ice caps if a thaw continues to spread in coming decades, scientists said on Friday. Camp Century was built in northwest Greenland in 1959 as part of U.S. research into the feasibility of nuclear missile launch sites in the Arctic, the University of Zurich said in a statement. Staff left gallons of fuel and an unknown amount of low-level radioactive coolant there when...

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