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Bikini Atoll is located 850 kilo-meters northwest of Majuro on the northern fringe of the Marshall Islands and is com-posed of more than 23 islands and islets. Four islands (Bikini, Eneu, Nam and Enidrik) account for over 70% of the land area. Bikini and Eneu are the only islands of the atoll that have had a permanent population. In 1946 ...
The nuclear weapons testing at Bikini Atoll program was a series of 23 nuclear devices detonated by the United States between 1946 and 1958 at seven test sites.
Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll consisted of the detonation of 23 (or 24 [a]) nuclear weapons by the United States between 1946 and 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Tests occurred at 7 test sites on the reef itself, on the sea, in the air, and underwater. [2] .
1 mar 2004 · Of the twenty-three crew members of the Lucky Dragon, which was exposed to radiation from the hydrogen bomb experiment by the United States on the Bikini atoll in the Marshall Islands, eleven people are alive. After half a century, more than half the crew is gone.
Bikini Atoll is one of the most northerly atolls at 11°N, with 23 islands and approx 187 km2 of reef. In general, reef habitats at Bikini Atoll and on other Marshall Island atolls include narrow reef flats with spur and groove development, reef crest and steep vertical exposed walls, protected sandy lagoons with patch reef development and ...
Bikini Atoll has conserved direct tangible evidence that is highly significant in conveying the power of the nuclear tests, i.e. the sunken ships sent to the bottom of the lagoon by the tests in 1946 and the gigantic Bravo crater.
Download PDF (6.89 MB) Get citation details. Description. The general concern about the state of the environment has focused the attention of many countries in recent years on the need to remediate areas affected by radioactive residues.
