On 30 December, an article in the LA Times said that included in a new Act passed by Congress is a demand that the Department of Energy investigate an ageing, cracking US nuclear waste dump threatened by climate change and rising seas in the Marshall Islands. The agency must submit a report by mid-June on the risks that Runit Dome poses to the people, environment and wildlife of Enewetak lagoon — the site of 44 nuclear bomb detonations during the Cold War. The islands sit in a remote part of the central Pacific, 5,000 miles southwest of Los Angeles. The newspaper has also revealed that it was the location of at least a dozen biological weapons tests as well as the repository for 130 tons of soil from an irradiated Nevada testing site.
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