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...Brookhaven doctors found that Marshallese food items from the contaminated and uninhabited Rongelap area have an "intake of strontium 90 over a seven day period [that] was twenty times higher than normal and that of cesium 137, sixty times higher than normal." Despite this information, government-sponsored examinations of islanders come only once every three years and only at certain islands. There are no centers established to deal with radiation - oriented symptoms...
...spite of slight lingering radio-activity" the Atoll Rongelap is safe for habitation. The exposed people from 1954 returned home with more than 200 Rongelap who were taken away from the atoll during the Bravo test. Brook haven National Laboratory doctors called this exposed group "an ideal comparison population for the studies...
...shooting grounds, Bikini and Eniwetok in the Pacific's Marshall Islands, are physically too tiny and politically too touchy for modern megatomics. Some 1,000 Micronesians live within 200 miles of Eniwetok, more than 10,000 within 600 miles. They remember the radioactive shower that fell on Rongelap, 100 miles east of Eniwetok, after a meteorological miscalculation in a 1954 U.S. test. The island's 82 inhabitants had to be quarantined on another island for 3½ years before their home was considered safe. Twenty-three Japanese fishermen in the trawler Lucky Dragon suffered radioactive burns. Since...
Lonely little Kwajalein Island, a 600-acre islet in the central Pacific, has known more than its share of excitement. World War II bombing raids left it almost bare of vegetation. In 1954 it was the first refuge of 82 inhabitants of nearby Rongelap, who were evacuated, their hair falling out in patches, after an H-bomb test had sprinkled their home with radioactive residue. When the radioactivity on Rongelap died down, the refugees returned and Kwajalein quieted down. But last week it was busier than ever as a task force prepared to test the Nike Zeus, the U.S. Army...
...poisoned people." Good news travels fast, and because of what the Navy and the AEC had done for their atoll, many a Rongelapese who left his home long before the H-bomb blast occurred had decided to return to it. Since island law provides that every member of a Rongelap family, whether living there or not, is entitled to a share of land, the Navy found itself returning a boatload of 275 Rongelapese to the atoll in place of the 82 it originally carried...