[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, GLOBAL: "Portions of Marshall Islands have more radioactivity than Chernobyl, Fukushima..."

[Lenny Siegel]

Portions of Marshall Islands have more radioactivity than Chernobyl, Fukushima, study shows

By JULIA JACOBO
ABC News
July 18, 2019

Parts of the Marshall Islands where the U.S. government carried out nuclear testing are more contaminated with radioactive material than Chernobyl and Fukushima, a new study found.

Researchers from Columbia University located external gamma radiation on nine islands and four atolls on the Marshall Islands, a chain of islands in the central Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the Philippines, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week.

In addition, soil samples from 11 islands in four of the northern atolls yielded radioactive concentrations, scientists found.

The U.S. military used two of the Marshall Islands' northern atolls, Bikini and Enewetak, for the testing of 67 nuclear weapons between 1946 to 1958, according to the study.

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For the entire story, see
https://abcnews.go.com/US/portions-marshall-islands-radioactivity-chernobyl-fukushima-study/story?id=64414544

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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