Melting
Greenland ice
sheet will soon unearth waste from long-forgotten Cold War-era military base
In 1967, the U.S. decommissioned a military base that had been constructed underneath the
Greenland Ice Sheet. In doing so, the military ******* a portable nuclear reactor that had helped power the 200-person base, but left the rest of the
waste there,
from gasoline to PCBs and nuclear coolant water.*
At the time, the U.S., along with their Danish partners who had authority over Greenland, assumed the
waste would be entombed for eternity beneath a perpetually deepening s**w cover.*
However, what once was buried, global warming is poised to unearth. According to a
new study published Wednesday in the journal
Geophysical Research Letters, the
Melting ice
sheet could begin spreading the hazardous
waste across the surface of the ice
sheet and into the ocean in as little as 75 years
from **w.
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