{"id":2536,"date":"2019-08-13T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafethorium.whoi.edu\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2019-11-12T09:21:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T13:21:33","slug":"putting-the-nuclear-coffin-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/putting-the-nuclear-coffin-in-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting the &#8216;nuclear coffin&#8217; in perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Marine chemist weighs in on leaking radioactive dome in the Pacific<\/h3>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/oceanus\/author\/evan-lubofsky\/\">Evan Lubofsky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There has been a flurry of headlines this summer about a &#8220;nuclear coffin&#8221; leaking radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean. The coffin\u2014a bomb crater filled with radioactive soil on a tiny island in the Marshall Islands\u2014sits under a 350-foot-wide concrete lid known as Runit Dome. It\u2019s arguably the region\u2019s most visible scar from a series of U.S. nuclear weapons tests that took place off Bikini and Enewetak Atolls between 1946 and 1958.<\/p>\n<p>Read more of this article on the WHOI website here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/news-insights\/content\/putting-the-nuclear-coffin-in-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Putting the \u2018nuclear coffin\u2019 in perspective: Marine chemist weighs in on leaking radioactive dome in the Pacific<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2537 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cafethorium.whoi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/11\/Ken-Runit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/11\/Ken-Runit.jpg 768w, https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/11\/Ken-Runit-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine chemist weighs in on leaking radioactive dome in the Pacific By Evan Lubofsky There has been a flurry of headlines this summer about a &#8220;nuclear coffin&#8221; leaking radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean. The coffin\u2014a bomb crater filled with radioactive soil on a tiny island in the Marshall Islands\u2014sits under a 350-foot-wide concrete lid&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[30,34,26],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-marshall-islands","tag-nuclear-testing","tag-radiation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}