Pacific
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Cover: Under this gigantic dome of -concrete, recently completed on Runit Island in the Marshall Islands, lies the radio-active residue of the US atomic tests at Enewetak Atoll22years ago. The concrete is more than 100 metres wide and nearly half a metre thick, and may well be off limits for 25 000 years. But how successful are the nuclear nations in keeping the lid on atomic waste? PIM reports in this issue on the concern of island nations, expressed at the South Pacific Conference, that their environment may be used increasingly as a dumping ground for nuclear waste. The report of the conference begins on page 11.