[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, GLOBAL: Camp Century, Greenland

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Experts issue warning as top-secret US military base emerges from melting snow: 'These aren't tombs for eternity'
"It was reasonable to expect it to snow forever.”

By Nicole Westhoff
The Cool Down
July 18, 2025

There's a time bomb in Greenland — and it's ticking faster with each passing day. The consequences? Not a mighty explosion, but contamination from what lurks just beneath the surface.

What's happening?

During the Cold War, the United States constructed a top-secret military installation called Camp Century beneath the northwestern Greenland ice sheet. Though decommissioned in 1967, the facility was never fully cleaned up. At the time, the military assumed the structure would remain entombed in ice indefinitely.

But the planet had other plans.

As temperatures rise and the ice sheet thins, Camp Century's legacy is starting to resurface — and it's not pretty. In a study published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers estimate the camp contains over 240,000 liters of sewage and wastewater, 200,000 liters of diesel fuel, and an unknown amount of radioactive coolant from its nuclear-powered operations.

…

For the entire article, see
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/camp-century-greenland-ice-sheet-toxic-waste

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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