Science in a Minute 071819 Parts of the Marshall Islands Remain Highly Radioactive Decades After Nuke Tests

Between 1946 and 1948, the US conducted nuclear bomb tests on a couple of islands and atolls, in the Marshall Islands, located in the central Pacific Ocean. A new study from a Columbia University research team has found that remaining radiation levels there, from those nuclear blasts, are higher than in areas affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters.