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A petrochemical plant on the water at nighttime.
Wind turbines in grass field during golden hour.
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Blue 18-wheeler truck parked on pavement.
Bikini Atoll nuclear contamination trust fund
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$59 million, gone: How Bikini Atoll leaders blew through U.S. trust fund

The Trump administration lifted spending limits on the fund, which aids descendants of people forced to leave the coral reef because of U.S. nuclear testing.
‘Atoms and Ashes,’ a frightening tour of six nuclear accidents

‘Atoms and Ashes,’ a frightening tour of six nuclear accidents

Serhii Plokhy writes about Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and other disasters, and about the common impulse among governments “to hide information and, later, to spin or distort it.”
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