(Task) Newsweek: Marshall Islands More Contaminated Than Fukushima and Chernobyl

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Marshall Islands More Contaminated Than Fukushima and Chernobyl
July 16, 2019 Some of the Marshall Islands, where the U.S. conducted dozens of mid-century nuclear tests in the mid-century, have radiation levels higher than Fukushima and Chernobyl, according to scientists. Made up of two chains of atolls comprised of over 1,000 small islets, the Marshall Islands sit in the central Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the Philippines. Following the Second World War, the U.S. occupied the islands and used them for nuclear weapons testing between 1946 and 1958.

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Dr. Michael D. McDonald