Activities related to nuclear weapons and nuclear power have created a vast archipelago of contamination.

Activities related to nuclear weapons and nuclear power have created a vast archipelago of contamination. Nuclear weapons and nuclear power production have created a vast, global archipelago of contaminated sites that have endangered health and the environment and will continue to do so. Congo, like many other countries that have supplied uranium to nuclear weapons or power states, has never had nuclear weapons or nuclear power. The scale of the waste“Each step starting with mining, creates radioactive waste and radioactive contamination.” The globally dispersed pollution includes “millions of terabecquerels of fission and activation products dispersed in air, soil, and water bodies due to nuclear weapons testing.”