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12/22/2017 / By Russel Davis

Radioactivity still lingering in the Pacific Ocean from nuclear bomb tests more than 50 years ago

A study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment revealed that radioactivity remains persistent in the lagoons of remote Marshall Island atolls in the Pacific Ocean where the United States carried out a total of 66 nuclear weapon tests between the 1940s and 1950s. A team of researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) noted that while levels […]

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