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Extreme Radiation Hazard in Marshall Islands, Critical Airspace Warning Issued

greekcitytimes.com Critical Airspace Warning: Extreme Radiation Hazard at Kwajalein Atoll - Greek City Times

A Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) has been issued for Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, warning of a severe radiation hazard. The airspace north of the airport's runway should be avoided at all costs, as it poses significant risks to life. In order to mitigate these dangers, all flights are directed...

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Fucking why? Say why? The article was useless.
- The why doesn't seem to be public. Speculation is a military test, perhaps some radar test.
  
  radar doesn't make things radioactive
- Navy, Air force or something is probably playing with the new Space Fence that is on Kwajalein (or any of the shit ton of radars they have over there).
  
  2.69MW radiated power in the microwave band could be enough to make any PAX aboard an aircraft into a way too hot pocket of meat.
  
  Goddamnit, now I'm hungry and I'm out of hot pockets.
- Says to contact base to deconflict with radiation hazard. Which would suggest it isn't nuclear radiation as that would just be contamination that isn't under control and able to be deconflicted with. Probably a powerful radar or electromagnetic weapon.
  
  https://www.ll.mit.edu/about/facilities/reagan-test-site
  
  Bunches of prototype radar and probably a sneaky x band pointed at nk & China.
This is a garbage website/source, but adds some more context:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/decades-old-nuclear-coffin-on-pacific-island-cracks-under-climate-stress/ar-AA1mOoN9

Apparently a big concrete dome where loads of radioactive shit from old tests has cracked due to weather/climate related wear and tear.
- An article from 2019, highlighting the risks of this thing becoming a problem: https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/
  
  The radiation warning is near a different atoll, so hard to say if the above is related or not, but it’s kinda blowing my mind how limited reporting is on the subject. It feels like it’s being suppressed in English language media.
IIRC there was a giant rouge wave there recently and it flooded a US military base
- rouge wave
  
  Red tide!
- IIRC there was a giant rouge wave there recently and it flooded a US military base
  
  Just how much lipstick ended up there? Jeez!

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