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- proper noun Rongelap atoll,
Marshall Islands .
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Examples
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Its radioactive fallout on Marshall Islanders living on Rongelap Atoll 140 miles away caused any number of health issues.
Story of B-53 'bunker buster' is a lesson in managing nuclear weapons Walter Pincus 2010
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But actually, it's a $239 million dome that covers the radiocative waste from nuclear explosion tests in the Bikini and Rongelap atolls.
Boing Boing 2009
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It took more than two days before the Rongelap people were evacuated after the explosion.
Robert Alvarez: The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands Robert Alvarez 2010
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Departments of Energy and Interior entered into an agreement with the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Local Rongelap Government that re-established radiation protection standards as a major element for the re-settlement of Rongelap.
Robert Alvarez: The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands Robert Alvarez 2010
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This resulted in a sudden and alarming increase in radiation doses to the Rongelap people eating local food.
Robert Alvarez: The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands Robert Alvarez 2010
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Congress and the Obama Administration is unjustified and unfairly places the burden of protection on the Rongelap people.
Robert Alvarez: The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands Robert Alvarez 2010
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As it now stands, if forced to return to their homeland the Rongelap people could receive radiation doses about 10 times greater than allowed for the public in the United States.
Robert Alvarez: The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands Robert Alvarez 2010
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By 1985, the people of Rongelap fled their atoll, after determining that the levels of contamination were comparable to the Bikini atoll where numerous nuclear devices were detonated.
Robert Alvarez: The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands Robert Alvarez 2010
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A scientist in a previously secret transcript of a meeting where they decided to return the Rongelap people to their atoll stated an island contaminated by the 1954 H-Bomb tests was "by far the most contaminated place in the world."
Robert Alvarez: The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands Robert Alvarez 2010
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Until the U.S. Government can assure that steps to mitigate doses to the same levels that are protective of American people are demonstrated, efforts to force the Rongelap people back to the home by Members of the U.S.
Robert Alvarez: The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands Robert Alvarez 2010
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