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Runit dome, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands. Image: Foreign Correspondent: Greg Nelson

Marshall Islands study: Concern raised over long-ignored nuclear contamination

March 18, 2022

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

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Runit dome, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands. Credit - Image: Foreign Correspondent: Greg Nelson

U.S nuclear waste remains pour into Pacific Ocean as radioactive remains leak from dome

February 9, 2018

A concrete dome holding the radioactive waste of 43 nuclear explosions is leaking into the ocean, veterans have warned. Click on the link below to read the full story.

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