Radiation in parts of Marshall Islands is higher than Chernobyl

        July 16, 2019 Columbia News | Marshall Islands | nuclear: radiation

Marshall Islands citizens are still not able to return to their homes on Bikini and Rongelap Atolls because of lingering radiation from the almost 70 U.S. nuclear bombs detonated there between 1946 and 1958. The largest test – “Castle Bravo” in 1954 at Bikini Atoll – was 1,000 times more powerful than either the Hiroshima or Nagasaki blasts.