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Bikini Atoll radiation levels remain alarmingly high

New measurements made decades after Pacific island used to test nuclear bombs

Bikini Atoll Testing

FULL-BLOWN FALLOUT  Remnant radiation levels from nuclear testing near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as seen in this explosion in 1946, are far higher than previously predicted, new research shows.

U.S. Department of Defense

By Thomas Sumner

- More than 2 years ago

Radiation from the 23 nuclear tests conducted near Bikini Atoll in the 1940s and ’50s has lingered far longer than previously predicted.