Bikini Atoll is STILL uninhabitable

[yuiyoshida]

Bikini Atoll is STILL uninhabitable: Radiation on island exceeds safety standards nearly 60 years after nuclear tests



Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear explosive tests at the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.


Now, researchers from Columbia University have tested the area for harmful radiation to determine that the islands can now be considered habitable – all but Bikini Atoll.


Bikini Atoll was the site of twenty-three tests during the twelve year period, including the devastating detonation of a hydrogen bomb on March 1, 1954.

At the time of the tests, inhabitants of the islands were moved to other locations.
Though many of the displaced residents and their descendants wish to return to their homes, there have been no surveys of gamma radiation over the past several decades, leaving it unclear if the islands are safe to live upon.


In new efforts to update this information, researchers flew to Marshall Islands and conducted gamma ray emission surveys on three of the most severely impacted atolls – Enewetak, Rongelap, and Bikini.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3630359/Bikini-Atoll-uninhabitable-Radiation-island-exceeds-safety-standards-nearly-60-years-nuclear-tests.html#ixzz4B1fDf5mr
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[hunter]

1. And soon it will be underwater.

Twentieth century fossil fuel and nuclear technology is awesome!

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[PJMcK]

2. We've developed technologies...

... that we've never been able to control. Consider:

- The testing and use of nuclear weapons has damaged people and our planet. More than half a century after the use of atomic weapons in Japan, the results are still being felt. The proliferation of nuclear weapons is out of control and concerned scientists put us at mere seconds away from midnight on their doomsday clock. Now we see that the testing has ruined this beautiful paradise atoll.

- The failures of nuclear energy have endangered lives and the environment. Decades after the Chernobyl meltdown, the area is uninhabitable and too dangerous for any human use. Fukushima is a disaster that is ongoing; scientists don't know where the melted core is. That's 600 tons of molten radioactive core that has sunk into the ground at extremely high temperatures. With all of the reactors around the world, which will be next?

[FLPanhandle]

3. Which is great news to the reef life around it.

Humans fuck up everything. I hope it stays uninhabitable for humans for another 1000 years.

[deaniac21]

7. There you go!!!

[Atman]

4. It looks beautiful. I'm old enough to take the risk.

WTF, huh? So live in paradise through your dying days.

I think I'm kidding.

[FLPanhandle]

5. If the "time to tumor" is greater than your projected lifespan, then why not.

I'd have no problem sailing into the area and staying awhile.

[Mendocino]

6. The "gift" that keeps on giving.

The Moab uranium mine sits aside the Colorado River. Over $750 million so far has been spent on the cleanup of this site. The Hanford complex is by the Columbia River. Cleanup there could ultimately run into many billions. There are over 500 old uranium mines on Navajo lands alone. Recovery there averages two sites a year or less. There is still no permanent site for all the waste that the nuclear power industry produces.

It is mind boggling.