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Researchers have discovered that there is an abandoned U.S. Army base which is underneath the ice sheet that shields Greenland. It was revealed that the camp had trucks, tunnels, and a nuclear reactor which it used for its operations.

This camp has been abandoned for about 50 years, and it is entirely buried below the surface. They also left behind dangerous pollutants. The group of scientists who discovered this says that as climate warming dissolves the ice sheet, there is the possibility that the pollutants could spread.

Camp Century as it was called was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1959. Then it was described as an engineering marvel; hollow home dug into the ice sheet, which could comfortably contain up to 200 people. Individual segments were about 100 feet deep.

U.S. Engineers constructed railways which ran along massive tunnels. The strategy was to examine whether nuclear missiles on tracks beneath the ice could be aimed at the Soviet Union.

The U.S. Army abandoned the camp in the year 1967 because they realized that the ice sheet was beginning to shift. They also realized that the tunnels wouldn’t last long, so they abandoned the camp. Ice and snow continuously amassed, thereby burying the camp beneath the ground even deeper.

About five years ago, an arctic researcher based in Greenland by name William Colgan said that there are a lot of items lying beneath the surface of the camp. During his research, Colgan a physical geographer at York University in Canada, was able to find out that the nuclear reactor which was used there was removed, nonetheless low-level radioactive cooling water used in it was not. He also discovered that they kept lots of diesel fuel for generators, vehicles and dug pits into the snow that stored human waste.