Bikini atoll population

Now they've been officially named and shamed. The military authorities and scientists had promised the Bikini Atoll's native residents that they would be able to return home after the nuclear tests. While some returned to Utrik just a few months later, the inhabitants of Rongelap did not return until , and they later chose to leave again. Thank You for Your Contribution! In new efforts to update this information, researchers flew to Marshall Islands and conducted gamma ray emission surveys on three of the most severely impacted atolls — Enewetak, Rongelap, and Bikini. The only recourse is for the Bikini people to petition the U.

To allow vessels with a larger draft to enter the lagoon and to prepare for the atomic bomb testing, the United States used explosives to cut a channel through the reef and to blow up large coral heads in the lagoon. Archived from the original on 30 January Most of the younger generation have never lived there or even visited and do not have a desire to return.