China News Service, February 1. On January 31, local time, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a subsidiary of the U.S. Congress, released a report stating that U.S. actions from the 1950s to the 1960s resulted in the destruction of Greenland, Spain, and the Marshall Islands. Radioactive contamination, its effects will remain for a long time.
The agency noted in its report that "U.S. actions during the Cold War resulted in radioactive contamination of Greenland, Spain, and the Marshall Islands."
In the 1960s, the U.S. military reportedly built a small nuclear reactor in Greenland to study the feasibility of installing nuclear missiles there. But the reactor was found to be highly radioactive, and the radioactive cooling water it left behind was buried under the Greenland ice sheet and will remain contaminated until 2100.
The report also shows that in 1966, two U.S. Air Force planes collided over the Spanish town of Palomares, causing radioactive debris to fall into the area and causing nuclear contamination.
According to reports, in the 1990s, Spanish officials re-evaluated the nuclear contamination in Palomares and found that the levels exceeded EU standards. In 2015, U.S. and Spanish authorities signed a statement of intent to further clean up Palomares, but a final agreement has not yet been reached.
The report also stated that between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific. There are remnants left after nuclear testing on the island, and local residents are worried that climate change may cause radioactive contamination and affect fresh water and food sources.