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REVIEW: Exposing the US nuclear test legacy in the Marshall Islands

Pacific Journalism Review, 2006
The world's worst nuclear reactor accident occurred in late April 1986 at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people and millions of square miles of land were contaminated by radioactive fallout spewed from the reactor meltdown.
Giff Johnson
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Left High and Dry: Deep Soil Water Depletion and Ecohydrological Resilience on China's Loess Plateau

WIREs Water, Volume 13, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
Deep‐rooted vegetation on China's Loess Plateau taps decades‐old “legacy” water stored in the deep vadose zone. The schematic illustrates how rooting depth controls access to shallow versus deep soil moisture, the role of preferential flow in rare deep‐recharge events, and the progressive depletion of deep soil water as afforested stands age. The inset
Jaivime Evaristo
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Hardening and Hollowing Out Private Property: Rentiership, Dispossession, and Planetary Extraction in the Marcellus Shale

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Southwestern Pennsylvania (SWPA) has long been an energy extractive periphery, continuously remade through cycles of dispossession and accumulation. Here we examine the changing dynamics of private property in these cycles and its central role in the latest phase of extraction—unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD).
Owen Harrington, Jennifer Baka
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Respatializing Toxic Harm: The Case Against Sacrifice Zones

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Describing heavily polluted areas as “sacrifice zones” has become commonplace in recent decades, as diverse groups resist their unwitting exposure to destructive and toxic industrial, municipal, and military activities. However, pollutants tend to seep, spill, leak, and drift from wherever they are concentrated, defying any notion of physical ...
Kimberley Anh Thomas, Caitlin Joseph, Britt Crow‐Miller   +2 more
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Modeling and interpreting element ratios in water and sediments: A sensitivity analysis of post-Chernobyl Ru : Cs ratios. [PDF]

, 1995
When elements are simultaneously added to lakes, experimentally or by accident, their ratios in the water phase and in bottom sediments can change with time due to differential partitioning between solution and suspended particles or sediments.
Hamilton-Taylor, J., Livens, F.R., Rigg, E., Singleton, D. L., Hilton, J., Kelly, M., Singleton, D.L., Livens, F. R., Davison, W.   +8 more
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In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud:Nuclear Testing, Radioactive Fallout, and Damage to U.S. Agriculture, 1945 to 1970 [PDF]

, 2019
In the 1950s the United States conducted scores of atmospheric nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site. This article studies the effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear tests on agriculture in regions hundreds of miles from the NTS.
Meyers, Keith Andrew
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Fallout: The experiences of a medical team in the care of a Marshallese population accidentally exposed to fallout radiation

, 1991
This report presents an historical account of the experiences of the Brookhaven Medical team in the examination and treatment of the Marshallese people following their accidental exposure to radioactive fallout in 1954.
Conard, R.A.
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Trace americium contamination sources in the environment can be detected using 243Am/241Am

Communications Earth & Environment
Despite the widespread presence of americium in the environment since the 1950s from nuclear activities, the use of americium isotopic composition to trace contamination sources has not been investigated.
Elena Chamizo, Mercedes López-Lora, Antonio J. López-Fuentes   +2 more
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Factors affecting the cesium transfer factor to shiitake (Lentinula edodes) cultivated in sawdust medium

Journal of Wood Science, 2021
The transfer factor (TF) of radioactive cesium-137 (137Cs) to shiitake (Lentinula edodes) cultivated on bed logs varies greatly. Therefore, the present study investigated which factors affect the TF using stable cesium-133 (133Cs) and sawdust medium with
Masakazu Hiraide
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Effects of Solid–Liquid Partition Coefficients and Soil Properties on the Transfer of Natural Radionuclides (238U, 226Ra, and 210Po) to Water Spinach (Ipomoea aquatica)

Applied and Environmental Soil Science, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Solid–liquid partition coefficient (Kd) and soil‐to‐plant transfer factor (TF) are two important parameters in numerical models for predicting radionuclide availability in plants. They have implications for agricultural strategies in high‐background radiation areas, where the activity concentrations of naturally occurring radionuclides (NORs) are ...
Hoang Nhat Nguyen, Dang Khoa Nguyen, Dinh Huy Phan, Van Thang Nguyen, Thanh Tung Lam, Binh An Le, Mikhail Komissarov, Kalyani Sen   +7 more
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