{"id":2526,"date":"2019-10-24T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafethorium.whoi.edu\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2019-11-24T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T18:41:10","slug":"new-insider-rmi_sampling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/new-insider-rmi_sampling\/","title":{"rendered":"The US government tested nuclear weapons on a chain of islands in the 1950s: A new project will allow locals to take their own samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em>&#8220;Marine radiochemist Ken Buesseler is on a quest to provide fresh answers about how much radiation remains on the [Marshall] islands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;What we want to scientifically understand is, how is [radioactivity] going up or down over time, over the years and decades?&#8221; Buesseler said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He&#8217;s setting out this November to teach a duo of Marshalese citizen scientists how to test for the presence of two key radioactive rare earth elements, by collecting sea water from a single nuclear waste site.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/largest-nuclear-tests-us-history-marshall-islands-effects-2019-10http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2527 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/insider-logo-111111-300x106.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/insider-logo-111111-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/insider-logo-111111-768x271.png 768w, https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/insider-logo-111111.png 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Read the full INSIDER article about the bomb testing, subsequent clean up and ongoing research:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/largest-nuclear-tests-us-history-marshall-islands-effects-2019-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.insider.com\/largest-nuclear-tests-us-history-marshall-islands-effects-2019-10<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Marine radiochemist Ken Buesseler is on a quest to provide fresh answers about how much radiation remains on the [Marshall] islands. &#8220;What we want to scientifically understand is, how is [radioactivity] going up or down over time, over the years and decades?&#8221; Buesseler said. He&#8217;s setting out this November to teach a duo of Marshalese&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[37,30,34,26],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-citizen-science","tag-marshall-islands","tag-nuclear-testing","tag-radiation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}