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water and food was higher than in Bikini Atoll in the South
Pacific the site where the hydrogen bomb testing took place. Inhabitants of the Bikini Islands had been evacuated from the area while it was not until 1985 that people of Rongelap were removed from the island due to efforts and commitment extended by Jeton Anjain.
184:(1991) owing to his commitment and involvement into bringing help and justice to people from Rongelap. The Right Livelihood Award Foundation granted the award to Anjain “...for (his) steadfast struggle against United States nuclear policy in support of their right to live on an unpolluted Rongelap island."
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In fact, the islanders were exposed to highly radioactive fallout particles because of the wind blowing in the direction of the
Marshall Island's Rongelap Atoll on the day of the tests. According to a study carried out by the U.S. Department of Energy in 1982, the level of contamination of the soil,
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Jeton Anjain was training as a dentist. He was appointed a health minister but he resigned in order to work for
Rongelap community and seek assistance in evacuating the island as well as justice for the islanders as a senator to the Marshall Islands Parliament.
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give scientific evidence for the inhabitants of the island. Because Anjain kept the issue alive islanders were evacuated from the
Rongelap and the US government agreed to carry on health and radiation survey in 1991.
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cancer which was probably the result of radiation exposure.
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