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Island in the Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands
Runit Island is one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The island is the site of a radioactive waste repository left by the United States after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on Enewetak Atoll between 1946 and 1958. There are ongoing concerns around deterioration of the waste site and a potential radioactive spill. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Runit IslandA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Run...it's a bee!The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Frequency distribution, isotopic composition and physical characterization of plutonium-bearing particles from the Fig-Quince zone on Runit Island, Enewetak AtollCited 22 times
- Go sideways: Enewetak AtollA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Operation Hardtack IA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Frequency distribution, isotopic composition and physical characterization of plutonium-bearing particles from the Fig-Quince zone on Runit Island, Enewetak Atoll
Radioactive waste buried beneath Runit Dome on Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands
Reducing Unnecessary Noninvasive Testing for Inpatients With Unstable Angina: The RUNIT Protocol
Living through Atomization: Runit Dome, Radioactive Matter, and Poetry of Digestion
THE REDUCING UNNECESSARY NON-INVASIVE TESTING (RUNIT) PROTOCOL
rUnit—A Framework for Test Analysis of C Programs
Cracks appear in nuclear waste sarcophagus on Runit island
📚 Books worth reading
Run...it's a bee!Robin Michal Koontz · 2012- 📕Grafisk databehandlingKetil Boe · 1975
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