Nuclear testing may have stopped years ago, but its effects are still prevalent today.🧐
studying the effects of nuclear fallout was one of the reasons that so many tests were conducted at the site.This resulted in a significant uptick in cancers in affected areas, including leukemia, lymphoma, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, bone cancer, brain tumors, and gastrointestinal tract cancers from the 1950s-onwards. Today, the site is monitored regularly for levels of radioactive contaminants, with results published every year by the Department of Energy.
National Nuclear Security Administration defense programs, industry research, and development efforts. Amchitka Island is situated in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and was the nuclear testing spot for some of America’s first hydrogen bombs. The site was used for three underground nuclear tests, and the legacy of this testing still affects the area today.
The first of three nuclear tests conducted there in 1965 was the Long Shot, an 80 Kiloton bomb. The second was the Milrow nuclear test, a 10 times more powerful bomb than Long Shot and was set off in 1969. The underground blast triggered a string of small earthquakes and massive landslides.After these two tests, the nuclear site was flagged by environmentalists for leakage of radioactive waste, which was denied by the Atomic Energy Council and the Pentagon.
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