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Found the most radioactive place on Earth

27.07.2019

The level of radiation in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean is still dangerous for people's lives, although many years have passed since the tests. This conclusion was made by scientists at Columbia University, after examining the soil on the islands.

In 38 soil samples from 11 different islands, an excess of radioactive elements was found - americium, cesium and two types of plutonium. The highest concentration is on Bikini Island, where the United States of America conducted the largest hydrogen bomb test in human history.

More plutonium was found there than at Chernobyl or Fukushima. In addition, the researchers checked the radiation levels in the fruits of trees in the affected regions and in the area of the crater formed as a result of the Castle Bravo test, where in 1954 a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb was detonated on Bikini Atoll.

Radiation contamination at inspected sites is excessively high. Despite the fact that the islands are not inhabited, the government is obliged to notify the inhabitants of neighboring islands of the danger.

The United States, France and the United Kingdom conducted tests in the Pacific Islands from 1946 to 1996. The Cactus bomb in 1958 left a deep crater on Runit Island. Later, waste from dozens of other tests was dumped into it. From above, the crater was covered with a round concrete dome with a diameter of 115 meters and a thickness of 45 centimeters. Tourists are periodically brought here, who can be photographed right on the concrete plate.

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