Study finds greater level

Marshall Islands

Study finds greater level of radioactive fallout

A STUDY in the Marshall Islands has found a greater level of radioactive fallout from American nuclear testing there than was earlier believed.

The head of the study, Steven Simon, has told the American based Health Physics Society that radioactivity levels increase are heaviest in the Northern Marshalls where the test sites of Bikini and Enewetak are located.

Simon said it’s important to have complete data before any further clean-up of the radioactivity can be attempted. People from the atolls of Bikini, Enewetak and Rongelap were displaced by the United States’ above-ground nuclear testing programme of the 1940 s and 50s, and have been unable to return because of high levels of radioactivity.