{"id":20606,"date":"2019-05-21T10:29:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T08:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=20606"},"modified":"2019-05-24T12:13:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T10:13:38","slug":"runit-island-tschernobyl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=20606","title":{"rendered":"Runit island &#8211; Tschernobyl #2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post-Thumb wp-image-20607\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Radioactivity-64x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Radioactivity-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Radioactivity-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Radioactivity-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Radioactivity-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Radioactivity-1440x1440.png 1440w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Radioactivity-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Radioactivity-500x500.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>It seems as if there&#8217;s more radioactive garbage all<br \/>\naround the world. One of these rather unknown<br \/>\nticking time bombs is on Runit Island, part of the<br \/>\nMarshal islands. There you&#8217;ll spot something odd!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It seems as if there&#8217;s an ufo in the north of that island that doesn&#8217;t fit into the rest. And that&#8217;s true. In 1958 a lot of atomic tests have been performed and the radioactive garbage and rubble has been dumped into the crater, all these tests have been causing.<\/p>\n<p>To seal off all the radiactivity, a 46cm thick concrete lid has been put over the crater which is about 100m in diameter and can be seen even from outer space!<\/p>\n<p><strong><div id=\"flxmap-6a7646ed12fbc\" class='flxmap-container' data-flxmap='flxmap_6a7646ed12fbc' style=\"width:640px;height:480px;\"><\/div>\n<script data-noptimize=\"1\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n(function(w, fn) {\n if (w.addEventListener) w.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", fn, false);\n else if (w.attachEvent) w.attachEvent(\"onload\", fn);\n})(window, function() {\n var f = new FlexibleMap();\n f.scaleControl = true;\n f.gestureHandling = 'greedy';\n f.mapTypeId = \"satellite\";\n f.mapTypeIds = \"roadmap,hybrid,satellite\";\n f.setlocale(\"en-US\");\n f.zoom = 18;\n f.markerTitle = \"Runit Island - Runit Dome\";\n f.showMarker(\"flxmap-6a7646ed12fbc\", [11.5525964,162.3472739], [11.5525964,162.3472739]);\n window.flxmap_6a7646ed12fbc = f;\n});\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The problem however is now visible: cracks are pouring around the concrete and the authorities fear that the lid might not withstand a stronger tropical storm anymore.<\/p>\n<p>So is the second Tschernobyl coming to Runit Island in the Enewetak atoll?<\/p>\n<p>While the USA have caused this environmental &#8220;problem&#8221;, they now say that they&#8217;re no longer responsible for it once the Marshall islands have become independent from the USA in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>But can you expect something in the size of Tschernobyl new sarkophagus project from a country that has about 50.000 citizen? the project in Tschernobyl has cost over 100 million US$. In terms of per-capita cost for the people of the Marshall Islands this would mean an instant 2000 US$ debt for each of them. With a nominal GDP per capita of 3789 US$ this would mean more than half of their annual income.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the solution in this game then? Wait and hope for the best to happen or preventive countermeasures to avoid any worst case scenario?<\/p>\n<p>And if that isn&#8217;t enough, analysts fear that the rising sea level already has flooded the crater and sweeping out the radiactivity already.<\/p>\n<p>Since the trash might be radioactive for at least 22&#8217;000 years, there&#8217;s no other solution available than to seal off the stuff and wait until radiactivity has gone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20614\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Runit-Island-Runit-Dome-640x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Runit-Island-Runit-Dome-640x429.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Runit-Island-Runit-Dome-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Runit-Island-Runit-Dome-500x335.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Runit-Island-Runit-Dome-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Runit-Island-Runit-Dome.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-20615\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Runit-Island-Runit-Dome-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Runit-Island-Runit-Dome-2.jpg 731w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Runit-Island-Runit-Dome-2-408x480.jpg 408w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Runit-Island-Runit-Dome-2-500x588.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although the images show people ontop the lid, Runit island is officially restricted zone and thus entering is either prohibited or only possible with special permits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as if there&#8217;s more radioactive garbage all around the world. One of these rather unknown ticking time bombs is on Runit Island, part of the Marshal islands. There you&#8217;ll spot something odd!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404,434,3,2949,19],"tags":[3880,97,773,3881,3879,3878,293],"class_list":["post-20606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture-2","category-nature-2","category-news","category-technology","category-thoughts-2","tag-atoll","tag-failure","tag-nuclear","tag-radioacitivty","tag-runit-dome","tag-runit-island","tag-test"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}