HONOLULU (Island News) — Nearly 40 years after U-S civilian workers were sent to clean up radioactive debris in the South Pacific, there’s a final push for their recognition.
Decades after numerous atomic blasts in the Marshall Islands, hundreds of civilian workers came in to clean up the debris, and the islands. Which exposed them to radioactive dust, water and more.
“I breathed in radioactive air. I drank radioactive water, and I bathed in it,” said Kenneth Kasik.
He was one of those atomic clean up workers in the 1970s. Kasik says over the years he’s paid the price for his time on Lojwa Atoll with hundreds of skin surgeries, and ailments impacting numerous organs throughout his body…