The rise in global temperatures that are causing Arctic ice to melt and sea levels to rise could disturb Cold War-era nuclear waste buried by the U.S. decades ago.

Climate change presents problems much more immediate and threatening than Cold War-era nuclear waste, Roy said.

“Probably going to have greater issues from climate change than the mobilization of radionuclides from the Cold War,” he said.

Its probably not disasterous, but I thought it was interesting as it raises the spectre of threats that are now appearing because we assumed we’d have a stable climate.

    • Sonori@beehaw.org
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      9 months ago

      Typically people are taking about things like high level waste from power plants produced today and which are properly stored, not random 60s military waste left in pits.