"A Poison In Our Island"

"Rising seas caused by climate change are seeping inside a United States nuclear waste dump on a remote and low-lying Pacific atoll, flushing out radioactive substances left behind from some of the world’s largest atomic weapons tests."

"'We call it the tomb,' says Christina Aningi, the head teacher of Enewetak’s only school.

'The children understand that we have a poison in our island.'

It’s 'Manit Day' on Enewetak Atoll, a celebration of Marshall Islands culture when the Pacific nation’s troubled past seems a distant memory.

Schoolchildren sit cross-legged on the coral sands as they sing of the islands and atolls, the sunshine and the breeze; 'flowers and moonlight, swaying palm trees'."

Mark Willacy reports for Australian ABC November 27, 2017.