The untold story of the veterans who breathed & ingested nuclear waste for months
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Army Veteran John Street was sent the Marshall Islands in the late 1970s.
Between 1948 and 1958 43 nuclear tests were performed there.
From 1977 to 1979, The Department of Energy, civilian contractors and United States service members were sent there to clean up the nuclear fall out from the testing. Army Veteran John street was there.
They took some of the nuclear debris left scattered from the testing and put it in a crater left after a nuclear test called the Cactus test.
Then they covered the debris with a dome, a foot and a half thick concrete barrier, a nuclear sarcophagus. The tomb, as it is called by many, is a protective barrier but there are problems with that. There is no protective layer underneath the dome's contents and it has cracks but it is much more protection than the men who filled that crater had during the mission.
John Street tells me what he witnessed in the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the late 70s.
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