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Concrete “tomb” of radioactive debris from nuclear bombs “is cracking due to climate change”

The concrete "lid" known as the Runit Dome was built on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands to contain radioactive material from 50s US nuclear tests

The Marshall Islands are 10 times more “radioactive” than Chernobyl

In 1946 the US detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Micronesia; it was the first underwater test of the device