By 2090 Greenland may be a zone of ecological disaster.
According to scientists from York University (Canada), global warming will lead to release of nuclear waste buried US in the Greenland glaciers.
In the article scientists published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says that in 1959, the US government tried to implement in Greenland, a secret project called “Ice worm.” Under the ice (at a depth of about 35 meters was built the base of “the Century.” It was planned to hold a series of tunnels in the ice shield of Greenland and placing several hundred nuclear missiles aimed at the USSR. But soon the project was frozen, and in all senses of the word. Experts came to the conclusion that the Greenland ice sheet is not static, but slowly move. Database decommissioned, but its infrastructure and waste left under the 35-meter layer of ice.
Canned natural way became radioactive and chemical substances. Among them 200 thousand liters of diesel fuel and 240 million liters of wastewater. In these waters could potentially contain radioactive coolant from nuclear generator that supplied electric energy “, the Century. Scientists estimate that these wastes pose a serious threat to the environment.
Simulation of climatic conditions conducted by canadian scientists indicates that in a few decades there will be a global melting of the glacier. And the military base will be “reopen”. On the scale of the potential ecocatastrophe hard to tell, but potentially they can be extremely negative.
