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    New US law requires probe of Marshall Islands nuclear dump threatened by rising seas

    by Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times Dec 30, 2019 3 minutes

    Congress is demanding that the Department of Energy investigate an aging, cracking U.S. nuclear waste dump threatened by climate change and rising seas in the Marshall Islands.

    As part of the new National Defense Authorization Act, signed last week by President Donald Trump, the energy agency must submit a report by mid-June on the risks that Runit Dome poses to the people, environment and wildlife of Enewetak lagoon - the site of 44 nuclear bomb detonations during the Cold War.

    It must also include an assessment of how climate change could

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