Bikini radiation levels

Archived from the original on 27 June These findings, reported in eight papers covering the subjects of external dose, internal dose, cancer risk projections, as well as the methodologies of dose reconstruction, are the result of several years of work to provide more precise estimates of cancer risk. Islanders afraid to go home 60 years after Bikini Atoll H-bomb Mar 01, Bikinians were allowed to return to their home in , but were subsequently evacuated in due to high levels of radiation. Most of the younger generation have never visited. In a considerably more thorough analysis published in the August issue of the journal Health Physics , NCI presents revised estimates of the number of excess radiation-related cancers for those residents who were exposed to radioactive fallout.

Learn more Your name Note Your email address is used only to let the recipient know who sent the email. Archived from the original on June 13, Retrieved May 4, Lots of quakes over last few days Feb 18, Study highlights need for improving methane emission database Feb 26, They had no idea what the explosion was and no understanding of the debris that rained down like snow, but they all soon became ill with the effects of acute radiation sickness. An year-old boy who was born on Bikini in died from cancer that was linked to radiation exposure that he received on Bikini.

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