Darlene Keju-Johnson was a passionate and outspoken leader on the harms of nuclear testing on the Marshallese people. In this testimony, she shares some of the health and psychological harms caused by testing in both Bikini and Enewetak Atolls.
Enewetak Atoll: Darlene Keju-Johnson
“In Enewetak Atoll there is one little island called Runit. It is off-limits forever. After the testing, the United States tried to clean up the radiation from Enewetak. It collected all the nuclear debris from the southern islands (the northern islands were too contaminated) and dumped it into a bomb crater on Runit, then covered it up with concrete. It is a huge dome. Now the scientists are saying that it is leaking, but they say it doesn’t matter because the lagoon is already radioactive. There are people living only about three or four miles from there.”
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