Radioactivity in the Marshall Islands

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The Marshall Islands have some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, but their past as a former US nuclear weapons test site means that hardly anyone lives there. Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, describes the Runit Dome that was constructed to hold up to 80,000 tonnes of radioactive debris. (Image: US Nuclear bomb test in Marshall Islands in Pacific in 1946.)