There is new evidence that fallout from atomic bomb testing in the Marshall Islands was significantly higher than previously thought.
The Nuclear Claims Tribunal Tribunal is looking at how nuclear fallout affected Utrik Islanders after the Bravo test at Bikini Atoll in 1954. The Islanders are seeking millions of dollars in compensation for hardship and to pay for cleaning up the atoll.
The Bravo hydrogen bomb was the biggest ever tested by the United States
The new study shows nuclear radiation from the test contaminated the Utrik people by 20 or 30 times more than stated by the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
The study says, previously, iodine levels and absorbtion had been wrongly estimated, and the islanders absorbed dangerous quantities of radioactive zinc through breathing and eating contaminated fish.
