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Finland’s Posiva, Sweden’s Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB) and Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organisation have collaborated on a five-year, (2008-2013) research project, The Greenland Analogue Project (GAP), investigating ice sheet conditions, in relation to the long-term management of used nuclear fuel in a deep geological repository. The focus of the study, the Greenland Ice Sheet, is the second largest ice sheet in the world and comparable to the ice sheets predicted to extend over both Scandinavia and Canada in the future.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 13 September 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgreenland-ice-sheet-studied-as-part-of-repository-research-5004404
Radioactive waste buried at a former US military base in Greenland could find its way to the ocean as the icecaps melt, according to Dirk van As, a climate researcher from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). The Camp Century base, established under the ice east of the Thule Air Base in 1959 by the US Army, used a mobile nuclear reactor as an energy source for the around 200 resident soldiers and researchers. When the operation, Project Iceworm, was abandoned in 1966, the US told the Danish government it would clean up the site, but a large amount of low-level radiation waste and toxic PCBs remained.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 23 August 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgreenlands-melting-ice-caps-could-expose-us-radioactive-waste-4986144