Buried below the ice sheet that covers most of Greenland, there's an abandoned U.S. Army base. Camp Century had trucks, tunnels, even a nuclear reactor. Advertised as a research station, it was also a test site for deploying nuclear missiles.
The camp was abandoned almost 50 years ago, completely buried below the surface. But serious pollutants were left behind. Now a team of scientists says that as climate warming melts the ice sheet, those pollutants could spread.
When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built Camp Century in 1959, an Army film touted it as an engineering marvel — a cavernous home dug into the ice sheet, big enough for up to 200 people. Some sections were more than 100 feet deep. "On the top of the world," the film's narrator intoned, "below the surface of a giant ice cap, a city is buried. Today on the island of Greenland, as part of man's continuing efforts to master the secrets of survival in the Arctic, the United States Army has established an unprecedented nuclear powered Arctic research center."
[...] The climate computer models say the camp could be uncovered by the end of this century.
Now, that's a worst-case scenario, based on an assumption that the world's governments won't do much to further reduce greenhouse gases that cause warming. But other things are happening that could spread that waste sooner.
Source: NPR
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @02:39PM
Er, what DID they do when they abandoned Hoth? Did the Empire bring in a HAZMAT team?
(Score: 2) by looorg on Monday August 08 2016, @03:37PM
I'm sure the Death Star could deal with it, no need to send in an expensive hazmat team when you can just fire up the planet destructing laser. After all it was infested with rebel scum and all ...
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday August 08 2016, @04:55PM
They killed all the humans, thus ensuring that Hoth would never get a bad case of global warming.