        National Geographic Photo of the Day: Rongelap Atoll Crab

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Marshall Islands, 1996 Photograph by Emory Kristof An orange crab taken
from the waters near the Marshall Islands' Rongelap Atoll bears no
outward evidence of the radioactive compounds that pollute its habitat.

In the 1940s and '50s, the United States conducted a series of nuclear
tests in the Bikini Atoll, a ring of Pacific islands. Radioactive
fallout still pollutes Rongelap Atoll, about 100 miles (160 kilometers)
to the east, but recent studies have found no long-term impact on
marine life there.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Testing the
Waters of Rongelap," April 1998, National Geographic magazine)
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