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Runit dome, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands. Image:  Foreign Correspondent: Greg Nelson
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A new scientific report suggests that the radioactive element strontium 90 is a more significant contamination factor in the northern Marshall Islands than has been acknowledged to date by the US Department of Energy. The new study, published in the Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences earlier this month, zeroes in on strontium 90, which it says has been largely ignored by US government scientists...

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