How the Greenland ice melt will expose buried US nuclear waste within decades｜Climate Change
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- The melting of Greenland’s ice cap is set to expose Camp Century, a US military base that hid a top-secret project along with its nuclear and other toxic waste.It was meant to be buried forever - entombed in ice. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News...)
But the rising temperatures mean that the cold war camp and its hazardous remains could be exposed within decades. Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reports from western Greenland.
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With the 1.5 trillion we have invested in the military in just 2 years i think we can afford to send the military to clean this up and we should.
Erin St. Or....the free world can show its gratitude to the US, for the peace, prosperity and freedoms that are entirely due to the USA. Maybe Europe should say thanks by cleaning it up
@@hayuwijayanti9790 You do realize that the USA is at war with 7 countries at this moment just for oil right??? Peace really?
Vegan Future "7 countries" AHAHAHAHAHA Hey vegan, eat some meat so that your brain can function
@@consciousfuture9682 and that's only wars then we have the regime change to
Erin St. the British should pay for the White House they burned to the ground in 1812.
This is disgusting. Americans need to clean this.
ZIG ZAG Ground ZERO let us hear why then?
ArcticCareBear Did you notice that this entire report was absolute BS? Or were you watching with your brain switched off and blindly following your climate cult masters like a stupid lemming? When the fuel barrels were dumped, the refuse dump site was free of ice!!! "unprecedented melt" is a complete lie. This kind of BS only fools the fools. Greenland still had 160 billion tonnes net growth of ice for the 2019 season. 1.2 trillion tones of ice growth since 2017.
@my Kirk NUCLEAR WAR...
@@hayuwijayanti9790 You sir, are dispelling false reports...The ice that grows in Greenland melts in spring, and then that ancient ice that's been there for tens of thousands of years melts during the summer...Haven't you watched the news over the last month? Alaska getting temps 70 degrees above normal, 5 million acres of forest fires, Rivers of fresh water flowing off Greenland, totally disrupting North Atlantic currents, etc. etc etc...Methinks you are one of those rare critters: Climate change denier.
Grant Kruse WRONG!!! "watched the news": AHAHAHAHA You must be really really dumb if you believe a single thing that the corporatist globalist Marxist MSM ever says. The Russian collusion and Greenland melting are fake news that only fool the fools. TRUE...Greenland had 340 billion tonnes of melt....BUT....the fraudulent climate Marxists and the fake news hid one tiny tiny fact from you dumb asses.......Greenland gets around 500 billion tonnes of snow each year. Greenland gets more snow than what melts every single year.....PERIOD!!! These facts are on the DMI website for even the dumbest of the dumb to see
Get America to pay for the full clean up...
@ZIG ZAG Ground ZERO Why not?
Diarmuid Keane Stop being so gullible. This is total fake news. "melting at a rate we've never seen before".....Blatant lies. There have been countless summer melts much greater than 2019. Greenland received around 500 billion tonnes of snow this season and the melt was around 340 billion tonnes. There was a net growth in ice of aprox 160 billion tonnes. Greenland ice has grown by 1.2 trillion tonnes since 2017. These stats are readily available on the DMI website.
@@hayuwijayanti9790 read my comment again maybe? They left nuclear waste down there you tool!
@@hayuwijayanti9790 - Fake news. The planet is warming and the ice is melting. You are believing the fake news that trump is spreading that there is no planet warming.
"Get America to pay for the full clean up..."
*What take the garbage from the remote garbage place to a different garbage place and pretend something green about doing nothing?*
No you can't buy Greenland and please clean up your mess.
Well, it's either Russia or China taking Greenland over. THAT's why Trump wants to buy Greenland.
Why don't you let the people of Greenland decide that?
@@YourJudgeLaw China and Denmark have good relations so no that won't happen and Russia is afraid of NATO so that won't happen either and Denmark is not stupid enough to sell Greenland to baby trump.
Martin Colding It's funny you say that because as soon as I click on this video, I got an ad from the Epoch times talking about why Trump wanted to buy Greenland. No, I wouldn't go assuming about Russia, "Being afraid" because you have no clue of their intentions. And it proves my point that you're just as ignorant because you act like this is the first time The United States tried to buy Denmark, haha.
What a rookie.
@@YourJudgeLaw If you honestly think Russia would invade Greenland you are insanely stupid.
what even is epoch times and what does it have to do with Denmark being willing to sell Greenland?
Me ignorant?? ahahha says the one thinking USA have tried to buy Denmark. if you weren't this stupid you would realise Denmark sold its west indies territory in 1917 and yes usa tried to buy Greenland before and it didn't happen and it will never happen. GET OVER IT!
moron.
Is that the reason they need to buy Greenland
thought the same good minds think alike.
Swaggie 707 USA is even closer. Look at Alaska which they bought from the Russia in 1867. USA and Russia are neighbor countries and probably have more in common than USA-Europe..
Greenland is rare earth metal rich. They hope all the ice melts so they can get to it.
No one should sell anything to America ! No one needs to anymore.. the US is a spoilt brat !!
ICELAND IS FULL OF MINERALS. GOLD....IT WILL ALSO BE A VERY GOOD PLACE TO GROW CROPS...... #GSM
Just when you think you've seen it all...
Yeah....then along comes another dumbed down climate Marxist propaganda video claiming unprecedented ice melt....and showing a rubbish dump that obviously was ice free 70 years ago when they stacked all those barrels so neatly. How many fools were fooled
@@hayuwijayanti9790 You're either an uneducated idiot, or a hypocrite. By the way, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, many conservatives, even libertarians were talking about danger of man-made global warming. Even Exxon officially admits today that man-made warming is real.
August Landmesser WRONG!!! Thatcher used a coal fired pollution narrative to break the Union stranglehold over energy generation and over the entire British economy and she switched to North Sea gas to circumvent mining unions. Stupid boy....are you Chinese?
Can't we build a wall around the Americans to keep them in? Trump would help? Just tell him it's to keep others out.
"Can't we build a wall around the Americans to keep them in?"
*Not really, because Americans are made up of every nationality.*
@Abdullah Seba Hahaha... Love it!!
I don’t mind some of the Democrats though. And there are lots of decent, ordinary people in the US too. Just look at all the climate strikers. We can give those asylum maybe, if Trump wins in 2020.
it's not just the yanks who were making messes back then :D
@@magicforest71
Not gonna happen. Your not really paying attention. NYSD...
@KingoftheCatnap NYSD?
America needs to be held accountable for all the damage they have done all over the world, the more I learn the more I detest corporate America and her military.
This is Americas responsibility wtf.
They are actually doing the same in Azores, Portugal.
Difference is the base in Lajes is still working.
America refuses to clean up and the Portuguese government just turns a blind eye like the good lap dogs they are.
They insist the environmental agencies are exaggerating and the ecosystem is not that poisoned as the claims.
Portugal should demand a total clean up of Lajes and surrounding areas and the return to Portuguese sovereignty of it.
If EVERY country that has an Amerikkkan military base said:"Yanqui Go Home" at the same time (over 700 bases in 129 countries worldwide), they'd have to give it up and go home...Even Ameikkka doesn't want to make war with 100+ countries at the same time. Guantanamo Bay is the first one to go.
@Dark Horse I take it you're missing the point here.
The US is a whole continent, they plenty desert, mountains, rivers to polute, poison and destroy on their land. Why don't they do it?
... Oh, wait!!
I'm sure, when they rent some land in another country, they don't say that total death and destruction is going to be the outcome of that place/deal!!
@Dark Horse uhh, maybe you should read my first post again.
Second, if i rent my backyard to be used as a base for processing dangerous waste, you shouldn't mishandle it in a way that'll kill any life form that may get near the area. Even if I had the knowledge of your intended use was.
Social and environmental responsabities??
@Dark Horse anyway, not here to argue with you.
you should see how high the disability rate is on children fathered by us soldiers that have worked near radioactive materials.
Never seen no reports on that but seen the kids with my own eyes, "buddy".
Maybe that'd change your mind, justifying the deeds of a murderous nation, even to their own citizens!
@Dark Horse you sure came across as very acceptive.
In my eyes, if the whole world starts demanding responsability and make them pay for wrong doings (however small we think they are) , their government will start thinking twice before stampeding over any humans?
Peace and enlightenment
Is there no end to human destruction?! For every video I watch about the climate and environment, and the more I learn, my disgust and despair just grows.
Why did we ever stop living like the indigenous people. They had it right from the beginning. I wish we could evolve enough to start living in that way again. Away from fossile fuels. Simpler lives. Less unnecessary stuff.
Greed and the strive for more power is what’s destroying us.
@Stevey Stevey We could develop more greener technologies, make less consumable society.
You start by recycling your computer or phone your using and stop being a burden on this world.
Oh, and hold your breath, because your letting out CO2, "Global Warming", Oh, wait, ALL plants, trees, grass, need CO2 (the more CO2 the better they grow) to live grow and produce oxygen, you can breath now, global warming has been shown to be a sham.
NOTHING can overlap humans parasite nature.
@@wrecktifier1it's not a sham, it's there but it's normal planet cycle. On the other hand, as geologists say, we've just left a minor ice age, climate is bound to get warmer. It was warmer in the viking's time than it is today. The problem is people are far too uneducated to understand it or too poor to give a damn about it since the major problem they have is how to get money to buy food. The rest make money on it.
That's weird, the USA never leaves any mess behind...
Amrikkka should be arrested for litterin.
Where did you hear this?
Yeah like the British European colonists never left any mess behind....and how China the next superpower will never leave any mess behind!
@@ameyas7726 ,,,, The USA removed people from Bikini atoll so they could blow it up with nuclear bombs. It is still not safe for them to return.
Now we learn they have left their toxic waste in one of the most pristine places on earth. What a pity they have no manners.
Tell that to the "agent orange" malformed children of Vietnam.
United state should pay for the clean up, and only the US.
The free world should pay the US for the cost of freedom. Your freedom is entirely the result of the US winning the cold war against the communists
No we'll get Mexico to pay for it.
Greenland is US territory. The 60,000 residents of Greenlands 863,000 square miles need to leave american soil.
And Rikard should pay to clean up America, because he shits on it so much.
@@hayuwijayanti9790Nope, USA should pay for EVERYTHING, forever.
God this made me sick. :'(
@ZIG ZAG Ground ZERO Yes I am.
Cleanup? No, that was not in the contract.
@Nick G "And neither was not destroying the very planet we depend on."
*ROTFL. A dot on Greenlands 863,000 squard miles has trash on it. Oh no! Oh my! Idiots go reeeeee!*
*How about America buys everyone greenland a house in America and we annex it. That would be $2 billion.*
So if you cleaned it up, how would you dispose of it. Can you make it disappear, its there till the end of time, like all human mess.
The more one studies the history of America the more pissed off you get.
1:58 Rip that guys leg opening the crate
Lol
Whenever and wherever Americans go, they leave a mess behind. It could be environmental, political, or health issues; it’s their moral prerogative.
This is the cost of Cold War protection
Maybe Trump can find a white Sharpie and cover all the barrels with ”ice”?
Look at 1:55 haha. As they open the crate the dude towards the back is almost wiped out by it.
Exposed to a landscape of toxic waste that it took you like three helicopter rides and a boat to get to. These are some of the most isolated places in the world
I'm sure Denmark got paid nicely to deal with the rubbish and pocketed it......
I’m struggling to get my head around this, they cut out trenches, built a camp, put a roof over it and let the snow and ice build up over it and it’s now 50m plus under the ice yet the ice has supposedly been melting at an unprecedented rate?
I’ve also heard that the ice up there is growing....
In the middle of Greenland the ice rises as it rains there, and the water then freezes over. This is why the camp is buried. Also Climate change is part of the problem as increasing atmospheric temperature increases water content, which increases rainfall and hence the amount the middle of Greenland rises.
they did the same in Alaska at Early Warning Defense Sites ...
Now that it is exposed, it becomes practical to clean it up, at least.
It will also expose the crater from the impact that caused the last megaflood on Earth around 12,000 years ago.
Hiawatha is now dated at over 50 million years, although I prefer the 12k hypothesis
Denmark shouldve made clear terms for USA to clean up the moment they knew USA was using nuclear power.
"Forever" ... that worked well.
Good luck getting any US help. Unless it comes with kick backs and lining the pockets of congressman and the president clean up will never happen thought American help
We are sleepwalking, entirely distracted, into our own children’s dammed fate.
This could be easily cleaned by the engineer corp and the US should 100% pay for all this disgusting mess.
Is this why they are interested in Antartic....
The nuclear program was dismantled before leaving.
All the barrels are diesel fuel barrels not radioactive waste.
At 5:05 one man interviewed said there was nuclear waste at the Camp Century site. 6:00 the narrator said that "tens of thousands Diesel barrels lie rusting in a field".
Everyone knows that Chernobyl is heating up again right?
Bikini Atoll- Marshall Islands..
Greenland will never be able to pay for cleanup, they lack the economy, and Denmark won't be able to cover the costs either, and why would they? Trump's deal needs to be taken seriously and allow the EPA to handle cleanup and maintenance, with the stipulation that Greenland becomes a U.S. territory. Perhaps these operations were more extensive than thought, and perhaps there is more beneath the ice than even this report sheds light on.
The only group that truly knows is the United States military. Do you think Trump made that offer as a joke? Do you think he is just saying things to be silly? I know many think this to be true, but only once you begin to see that he has good intentions can you begin to put the pieces together and realize that the deal might have been more than just a goofy idea. Please, Greenland, consider the offer.
Yes. The American military. Fact is, even what is visible (not secret) in the American military is actually not accounted for American carbon emissions and pollution. A few decades ago, a new law was passed to avoid measuring the pollution the US military produces. It’s been reported that the US military is the largest consumer of oil and the heaviest polluter. For one, the M1 Abrams. A typical tank in US military. $6 million. 600,000 gallons a day (0.6 mpg), while a Toyota Camry is 34 mpg. The statistics on American pollution would look drastically different if the military was included.
Wait who did that mess?? So who should clean it? Yeah, clean it up US ...they left the mess😒
What’s happened to the ship that got stuck in the frozen ice
lol What about the dump site being free of ice when the barrels were dumped. Looks like his "unprecedented rate of melt" is a load of BS
@@hayuwijayanti9790 Why are you calling Norwegian scientists bullshitters.Grow up
Very interesting video. Amazing how stupid and naive our government was 50 years ago, and they may be stupider and more naive today.
Less government then. Lets cut all those naive US departs of x things. EPA, Dept of Educaiton are very naive.*
Robert Schlesinger Even more amazing is how gullible the people are who believe this BS. If everything happened exactly as they described it, adding that amount of nuclear waste to the Atlantic Ocean the vastness of that Ocean would dilute it to levels that would be undetectable.🙄
@@grandpatoms7091 You are misinformed. The nuclear waste products are amongst the most toxic known, and are largely insoluble or barely soluble in water, and the case would be worse with sea water. By the time they would be "diluted", as you state, or even significantly dispersed, the nuclear waste would be in our food chain. As far as such waste being "undetectable", as you state, that is ridiculous and absolutely false. Analytic instrumentation could easily detect it. Even remote sensing instrumentation could easily detect it. These are the scientific facts.
@@robertschlesinger1342 "By the time they would be "diluted", as you state, or even significantly dispersed, the nuclear waste would be in our food chain."
*You stated is dangerous because of concentration, but the concentration at the bottom of an ocean is remote. Then you state it would be in our food chain, which is saying it's no longer concentrated.*
"Analytic instrumentation could easily detect it."
*A detector being dragged behind a ship and hanging 7 miles down into the ocean to get within feet of something radioactivity? Sounds like magic.*
"These are the scientific facts."
*No, a scientific fact would provide evidence. You've demonstrated you're crazy when it comes to talking about nuclear things.*
@@dmay3391 You don't know what you're talking about. It would be insanely foolish to dump nuclear waste or nuclear waste canisters in the ocean as the pressures at the ocean depths are greater than you could imagine and the waters are corrosive. I haven't the time for such absurd discussions with light weight amateurs. Good luck.
Greenland is huge though, bigger than Alaska. The most worrying thing about it is the rising sea levels from the fresh water glaciers.
Can this iron be recycled?
Well they better fucking sort it out then.
Im sharing this to the news...this is disgusting
Radar can penetrate ice, but Radiation doesn't ?
It depends on how the waste was stored. I'm guessing it wasnt a big priority back in the 60s
@@Mugdorna One foot of steel, or two feet of concrete, or, four feet of water will stop radiation. this is why nuclear submarines are the first, and best application for nuclear power.
I just have one question. 🙋🏻♂️-“If the base was dug 50 meters under the ice 🧊 and now it sit 80 to 100 meters under the ice, then in the last 60 years the ice sheet has grown by 90 to 150ft, so tell me again how the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet is affecting the buried camp?”
The whole glacier is moving in some fashion with Camp Century moving with it. Typically glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica move to a terminus at the ocean. Most unlikely Camp Century will end up at the coast more or less intact. Most likely it will be crushed and pieces of the camp will move to the coast where ice will melt and everything will go in the ocean. I don't know if there is bedrock under Camp Century, but if there is there is, meltwater acting as a lubricant at the glacier/dirt level accelerates glacial movement.
This is why the Scott base at the South Pole is now made with a telescopic system so that as snowfall and wind driven snow try to bury the station, it is raised so it can remain on the surface. The previous base is submerged under the ice. Meteorologically the interior of Antarctica is gaining ice as it is always cold there and snow storms are now more common. Except in the very furthermost interior of Greenland, it is getting more warmer and melting now exceeds snow deposition.
So if they know where the camp is and that it’s going to be ejected out of the ice sheet why not just wait till it comes out and have cleanup crews on hand?
For what we know today, the camp would not have survive a Russian nuclear attack, the Russians had 50megaton thermonuclear weapons😬😬
America's gonna have a big clean up bill.
Greenland is full of valuable mineral. Anyone who wants to develop those deposits should also do clean up. Win/win and you don't have to wait for a government to debate the issue, or come around to taking responsibility.
Except...Greenland I’ve is not melting....
The US definitely should clean this mess up!
At 4:50 the expert of the moment said the camp is now 50 or 70m below the surface.
Like those shitty campers that leave mounds of trash behind them when they leave. To the USA, we thank you... we thank you to never come again.
"The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!"
Greenland should belong to the USA. We need to give Denmark some money and some preferences. Such a territory should belong only to such a great country as the USA. Take away, like Alaska from Russia.
And if Denmark is outraged, it is necessary to initiate all efforts to discredit this state. Up to the discovery of weapons of mass destruction in their possession. It is too small and does not have the right to use such a large territory as Greenland.
5:35 abandoned barrels😡 at former Bluie East Two Air Force airfield at Ikateq in eastern Greenland, operational from 1942 to 1947 (Wikipedia)
With twenty seven thousand barrells of DDT in the ocean off the coast of California, and no telling how much nuclear waste was also dumped in our oceans, its not a surprise that many smart people want to go to Mars...
if you can't repair your own planet then you certainly have no business on mars
once we have finished killing this one, we will need a new one to infect.
Where is Greenpeace ?? This is why Trump wanna buy Greenland ??
Well at least they have gloves on.
And ED
Spoiler alert, its actually growing. You guys need to get your kicks somewhere else.
Could have been worse for Denmark. The Germans could have won the war and the Danes wouldn’t have to worry about what those nasty bad Americans would have done to Greenland.
Save Our Planet
American here, uhhhh, yeah, sorry about that.
Matthew Reilly wrote " Ice Station" and most likely his research included 30 US abandoned ice stations.
Interesting. Thank you.
That was very interesting how they were holding "Uranium".
What does he say at 1:50 ???
We need to change the name to Wasteland🤣🤣🤣
America should be more than ashamed of themselves
So....when you look for contamination in water, let’s say oil......what do you look for? Why, oil of course. Following that logic, when you look for radio active contamination of the water, in the ice or under the ice, you look for radio activity. Have they found any ? No. You know why ? Because it’s not there. It was removed in 1966. Was there a military installation there ? Yes. It had a nuclear reactor which generated electricity. It’s gone and so are all the barrels of cooling water. Making up fake news is a scourge on society. “The sky is falling”.
Camp century American firepower
Actually, New research suggests that as early as 2090, rates of ice loss at the site could exceed gains from new snowfall. And within a century after that, melting could begin to release waste stored at the camp, including sewage, diesel fuel, persistent organic pollutants like PCBs, and radiological waste from the camp’s nuclear generator, which was removed during decommissioning. So, IF the ice melts we only have 170 years to figure it out.
I suggest you update your timeframe.
@@JRCMRamos www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/mysterious-ice-buried-cold-war-military-base-may-be-unearthed-climate-change
phys.org/news/2019-06-iceless-greenland-future.html
Well we'll all be dead before we have to worry.
New scientists have invented future seeing device that away agrees with their political opinions. Most scientist agreed with this opinion.
The US bastards buried nuclear waste in someone else's country under moving ice. Their nose ringed idiot sums it up. The Danes are just as bad.
Suppose it's trump's fault now, send Greta thundberg there hopefully she can waste the rest of her childhood there.
How about Greenland war hammer forge initiative, turn the barrels and the I-beams into a Warhammer cache.
The Greenlanders never miss the opportunity to forge more hammers.
At the Nevada Test and Training Range (formerly known as the Nevada Test Site [NTS]) 824 underground nuclear test explosions were conducted by what is now the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The resulting explosions left pockets of radioactive blast debris which includes significant quantities of plutonium-239, along with the fission products. Much of that is buried below, or just above, the local water table. The blast debris has a composition similar to that of the spent nuclear fuel discharged from nuclear power reactors.
A report was issued in April 1997 titled Focused Evaluation of Selected Remedial Alternatives for the Underground Test Area (DOE--465, UC-700) that looked into various alternatives for dealing with that buried radioactive waste. It was estimated that a partial cleanup of it could cost around $7.29 trillion (USD). Due to various impracticalities, including cost, the cleanup options were rejected in favor of the long term Institutional Control option. It was assumed that future generations would find a practical solution. Due to the lengthy half-lives of some of the radioisotopes the blast debris will present a potential hazard for around a half-million years.
The testing site consist of Public Lands that were temporarily withdrawn by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from public access for use by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the U.S. Defense Department.(DoD). As a result of the testing activities the property has been turned into a national sacrifice zone. The contamination is now used as an excuse for not considering returning those lands for general public access..
Use Google Maps and look up " Sedan Crater " part of the " Plowshares" program, the AEC attempted to sell nukes on the open market to oil exploration outfits, and canal-diggers. A daisy-chain of six nukes was used to dig a large trench. Tourists can now visit the 300-foot deep Sedan Crater, which polluted more of America than any other test.
@@cristophersteele5214 - Thanks for mentioning those issues. I spent many years researching Project Plowshare history and the contents and distribution of the radioactive blast debris left at the NTS and the offsite test site. I've taken the tour to the Sedan crater twice and have visited all the offsite teat sites in the lower 48 states. I consulted for the production of two videos. One is titled Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero. The Canadian video is titled Nuclear Dynamite.
The AEC did attempt to encourage commercial enterprises to use their nuclear explosives. A primary pusher of that was the emimentnt nuclear physicist Dr. Edward Teller, often referred to as the father of the American H-bomb.
You are correct that the Project Sedan cratering experiment was one of the dirtiest of all the nuclear cratering experiments and of the underground blast series.
I need one of those barrels to make a new BBQ
He said that when it was built they dug out trenches 7 meters deep. And now it is 50 meters deep, where did the snow come from if the glacier is melting. And this year there is
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When all of this is over, the aboriginals will laff at what the "powerful and technological humans" have done, then they will go back to living a peaceful co-existence with Nature. At least I hope so. But, unfortunately, I think we have done-in the Earth and all of Her inhabitants. How could we have been so stupid? Complacency, greed, one-up-man-ship. I know people who still think all is well, and think the Indigenous are to be pitied for their lifestyles.
Another reason we love the Septics..
Return it to the Americans. They can pollute their own shore line!
Amerikkka at its best, baby.
There is no free lunch and no waste staying entombed.
That's why they wanted to buy it, the president
Why would he want to buy a toxic waste dump? To clean it up? Nah...
Could not beat a ninja. Earth got diseases.
Antarctica iS Even Bigger
Thanks America!
A typical piece of bone headed ambition that was typical of the Cold War era, all done with no care for the future or the environmental cost.
The Yanks have to sort this out and pay Denmark reparations.
Better sell the island to the US
Leaded diesel fuel? An oxymoron.
i thought the same thing so i did some research , seems that fuel tanks used to be made of steel and were coated with lead before they moved on to making galvi coated ones, HTH
@@DazzaDirect At 5:18 the narrator says " . . . leaded diesel fuel, PCBs, and other persistent pollutants." At 6:00 he says "Tens of thousands of diesel barrels lie rusting, in a field. And it's not just the leaded diesel barrels, the Americans also left behind . . ." It's clear to me that the narrator is saying that the diesel fuel is leaded, and not just lead-lined containers. For those unaware, lead, in the compound Tetraethyl lead (TEL), is added to gasoline to make it more difficult to ignite, allowing for higher compression ratio engines. Added to diesel fuel, which must be easy to ignite, a diesel engine would be nearly impossible to start, especially in cold weather. It is a sure thing that any aviation fuel (gasoline) left at the airstrip is leaded. Ergo, "leaded diesel fuel" is an oxymoron. I'd like to hear the writer's and narrator's comments. All I want is accuracy in reporting. Yes, Americans do bad things, and I'm ashamed. It's good that such stories are published.
In this world who was the genius that approved the use of nuclear fuel in daily life
Agree the Iceland people should work getting the compensation and they should go to so called international court( which infact do nothing in real issues)
Can't skip the chapel
Is there any place in the world we haven't contaminated ? Nuclear waste in Greenland , really ? WTF.
Possibly why Trump wanted to buy Greenland??? No, far too easy..
Who is the narrator?
Low carbon emissions from the base though, so I guess we dodged that bullet
Not gonna happen!
Google “ the dome in the Pacific “ another USA abandoned nuclear dumping ground.
Is this real???