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New research finds- Radiation levels higher in Marshall Islands than that of Chernobyl & Fukushima

R Sinduja

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New research revealed that some parts of the Marshall Islands have higher radiation levels than that the parts affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters. The US had conducted nuclear tests during the cold war there. Columbia University researchers carried out 3 studies there and found that the concentration of nuclear isotopes on some of the islands in the Marshall Islands were above the legal limit.