Greenland’s receding icecap to expose top-secret US nuclear project | World news

Ça chauffe au #Groenland! Une base US #nucléaire, secrète, va refaire surface
Read more at ▻http://www.rollingstone.fr/ca-chauffe-au-groenland-une-base-us-nucleaire-secrete-va-refaire-surfac

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Au Groenland, le réchauffement climatique menace de faire resurgir une base militaire secrète abandonnée par l’armée américaine en 1967. Son réacteur nucléaire avait été démantelé, mais beaucoup de déchets y sont encore enfouis. A cause de la fonte des glaces, les eaux usées et les résidus radioactifs risquent de se déverser dans l’océan.

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Il faudra opérer un nettoyage rapide de la zone, même si son coût sera exorbitant. Pour l’instant, ni les #Etats-Unis, ni le #Danemark ne semblent prêts à le financer.

Le ministre des Affaires étrangères du Groenland, Vittus Qujaukitsoq, déclare être « préoccupé » par ce risque de #pollution et il souhaite que la responsabilité des Etats soit établie au plus vite.

Le #Pentagone affirme « reconnaître la réalité du changement climatique et les risques qu’il pose » sur le site Camp Century. Il s’est engagé « à œuvrer avec le gouvernement danois et les autorités groenlandaises pour régler les questions de sécurité communes ».

Greenland’s receding icecap to expose top-secret US nuclear project
►https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/27/receding-icecap-top-secret-us-nuclear-project-greenland-camp-century-pr

Once that starts to happen, the question of who is responsible for the clear-up – already the subject of discussion – will become more pressing, the report said, presenting “an entirely new form of political dispute resulting from climate change”.

With no established agreement on the question, the report says the “multinational, multi-generational” problem posed by Camp Century and its waste could become a source of tension between the US, Greenland and Denmark.

Greenland’s receding icecap to expose top-secret US nuclear project | The Guardian
►https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/27/receding-icecap-top-secret-us-nuclear-project-greenland-camp-century-pr

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A system of about 4,000 kilometres of icy underground tunnels and chambers extending over an area around three times the size of Denmark were to have housed 600 ballistic missiles in clusters six kilometres apart, trained on Moscow and its satellites.

Eventually the engineers realised Iceworm would not work. The constantly moving ice was too unstable and would have deformed and perhaps even collapsed the tunnels.

From 1964 Camp Century was used only intermittently, and three years later it was abandoned altogether, the departing soldiers taking the reaction chamber of the nuclear generator with them.

(...) With no established agreement on the question [of clean-up], the report says the “multinational, multi-generational” problem posed by #Camp_Century and its waste could become a source of tension between the US, Greenland and Denmark.

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