For years, American authorities have asserted they hold no responsibility for Runit Dome, a concrete-capped waste site in the Marshall Islands, where the United States dumped 35 Olympic swimming pools ...

More than 40 years ago, the U.S. buried radioactive waste on Runit Island. The leaking dump site is a point of contention in negotiations over an extended security pact with the Marshall Islands ...

Graffiti in May 2018 is written on Runit Dome, in Enewetak Atoll of the Marshall Islands, urging the United States to take responsibility for the radioactive waste encapsulated inside the concrete ...

The U.S. tested 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958. Parts of the Marshall Islands where the U.S. government carried out nuclear testing are more contaminated with radioactive ...

Enewetak Atoll is a large coral atoll of 40 islands in the Pacific Ocean and forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands. However, only three islands along Enewetak Atoll’s ...

One of Hawaii’s high-profile politicians has dismissed a recent Department of Energy report concluding that a leaking U.S. nuclear waste repository in the Marshall Islands is safe for people there. “I ...

Congress has taken notice of the otherworldly concrete dome on a spit of coral in the central Pacific that serves as a massive radioactive trash can for doomsday weapons waste. As part of the defense ...

Congress is demanding the Department of Energy investigate an aging, cracking U.S. nuclear waste dump threatened by climate change and rising seas in the Marshall Islands. As part of the new National ...