By Journal on December 6, 2019
Enewetak, Majuro, police, Ronglap
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Journal 12/8/1982 P1 High spirits The Rongelap airfield was opened Monday by an Airline of the Marshall Islands flight. Rongelap people prepared a welcome including dancing. P1 Power soon Testing on the new power plant is continuing December 8. The number one generator should produce power this week, according to one of the construction managers. […]
By Journal on November 29, 2019
Enenkio, Enewetak, hospital, Ishoda Allen, Jolden Langrus, San franciso
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Journal 11/30/1982 P2 Outer islands update The Lae airfield should be ready by Friday. The first landing on Rongelap should be next Monday. The next atoll after Lae to get an airfield should be Ujae. P2 Seventh Day Adventist honor roll first quarter Linda Laupepa, Jelina Rilometo, Ginger Alik, Joann Tadeo, Vivanna Velasco, Linda Allen, […]
By Journal on September 5, 2019
Bikini, David Bernhardt, Donald Trump, Enewetak, Hilda Heine, Kelly Lorennij, Kevin Lunday, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Nic McLellan, Pacific Islands Forum, Rarotonga Treaty, Rongelap, Sandra Oudkirk, Tim Gallaudet, Utrok, World War II
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KELLY LORENNIJ Among the important topics discussed by Pacific Island Forum leaders in Tuvalu last month was the issue of nuclear contamination in the region, a long-standing concern stated in previous Forum meetings and official communique statements, as well as health and security issues related to World War II wrecks and unexploded ordnance. This year […]
By Journal on July 18, 2019
Bikini, Chernobyl, Enewetak, Fukushima, hot spots, LA Times, nuclear, radiation, Rongelap
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Radiation levels on Bikini Island are up to 1,000 times higher than samples from areas affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear power plant disasters, newly published research on the Marshall Islands shows. Several new studies were published Monday by the US National Academy of Sciences based on research conducted by scientists with Columbia University […]
By Journal on June 27, 2019
Enewetak, Giff Johnson, Runit
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GIFF JOHNSON After decades of no one outside the Marshall Islands paying attention to the nuclear waste storage facility known as the Runit Dome, it is increasingly in the international spotlight with attention like never before. Following UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ comments of concern last month about possible leakage of radioactivity from the Runit […]
By Journal on January 18, 2019
Bikini, Enewetak, Nitijela, nuclear weapons testing, Rongelap, thyroid tumors, Tom Kijiner
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Journal 1/19/1982 P6 Rep Seiberling hopes for Compact in ’83 US Representative John Seiberling told the welcoming crowd at the Majuro airport that 1982 is too early for completion of a Compact of Free Association. He added that he hoped the matter would be placed on the 1983 congressional agenda. Seiberling is chairman of the […]
By Journal on July 20, 2018
Daus Ittu, Enewetak, Moses Abraham
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Journal 7/17/1981 P1 Enewetak fishermen rescued Two men from Enewetak who were lost at sea in their 13-foot motor boat since June 9 were found and rescued July 9 by the MV Eagle Arrow, about 600 miles west northwest of Enewetak. Both men, Daus Ittu, 29, and Moses Abraham, 30, appeared to be in good […]
By Journal on April 5, 2018
Enewetak, Moana Marine, reverse-osmosis, Tom Vance, Utrik
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The largest reverse osmosis (RO) water-making unit on an outer island in the RMI was successfully installed at the end of March on Enewetak Atoll. The new equipment, which is powered by solar and wind energy, can produce up to 5,600 gallons per day on RO units and 11 gallons per minute on water treatment, […]
By Journal on November 30, 2017
Enewetak, Honolulu-Star Bulletin, Lujor, nuclear cleanup, nuclear waste, radioactive, radioactive debris
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Journal 25, 1977 P1 US courts reject Kwajalein case Marshall Islanders will get no help from the US Supreme Court in their claim that the Navy took Roi-Namur Island, Kwajalein Atoll, from them without adequate payment for use in the Kwajalein Missile Range, Gannett News Service reports. The court October 3 declined to review a […]
By Journal on March 9, 2017
Bill Graham, Dr. Neal Palafox, Emlyn Hughes, Enewetak, Enja Enos, Glenn Alcalay, Hilary Hosia, John Silk, Karen Stewart, Kenneth Kedi, Meto Court, nuclear legacy conference, Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day, RMI, Tony ‘Ton-Ton’ deBrum Kattil, Tony deBrum, Trudy Peterson, Ujelang
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Following the traditional annual program commemorating Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day at the Meto Court area in front of the capitol building Wednesday morning, the RMI’s first ever nuclear legacy conference opened in the afternoon at the International Conference Center. The theme for the conference was “Charting a Journey Toward Justice.” After an invocation by the […]