Nuclear testing, 98 Bikini Atoll

Bikini Atoll (not specified)a, U.S. Nuclear Test Site from 1946 to 1958, including BRAVO explosion on 3/1/54 Robison etal. 1997b... 

Robison WL, Bogen KT, Conrado CL. 1997b. An updated dose assessment for resettlement options at Bikini Atoll-a U.S. nuclear test site. Health Phys 73(1) 100-114. 

The evolution of environmental radioactivity and radiation measurements in Japan originated essentially in the survey of widespread radioactivity contamination due to the nuclear explosion tests at Bikini atoll on 1st March, 1954. Today, environmental radiation monitoring in the vicinity of nuclear power facilities has become more important than radioactive fallout surveillance, since 38 nuclear power plants are already in operation or under construction in Japan. 

Prior to the Able test in 1946, the first nuclear test in Bikini Atoll, the 167 Bikinians then living on Bikini Island were evacuated to Rongerik Atoll, about 200 km to the east. 

Nuclear weapon tests conducted at Bikini Atoll... 

Fig. 10.14. Bikini Atoll (A-J) locations of nuclear weapon test detonations (1 NM = 1.85 km).

Bikini and Enewetak Atolls were used as sites for tests related to nuclear weapons by the USA between 1946 and 1958 (see map in Fig. 10.12 for the location of Marshall Islands and vicinity). 

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