Rongelap Atoll scrape off a few inches of Rongelap's still contaminated surface. However, this is an operation deemed impossible by some critics. In recent years, James Matayoshi, the mayor of Rongelap, claimed that the cleanup was successful and envisioned a new promising future for the inhabitants and for tourists. Scientific measurements made in August 2014 verified a safe level of radiation on Rongelap. Marshall Islands Public School System operates Mejatto Elementary School, which serves the community in Mejatto that resided in Rongelap Atoll. Rongelap Atoll Rongelap Atoll (Marshallese: , ) is a coral atoll of 61 islands (or motus) in the Pacific
Enewetak Atoll cold war; in 1977–1980, a concrete dome (the Runit Dome) was built on Runit Island to deposit radioactive soil and debris. The Runit Dome is deteriorating and could be breached by a typhoon, though the sediments in the lagoon are even more radioactive than those which are contained. The U.S. government referred to the atoll as "Eniwetok" until 1974, when it changed its official spelling to "Enewetak" (along with many other Marshall Islands place names, to more properly reflect their pronunciation by the Marshall Islanders). Enewetak Atoll formed atop a seamount. The seamount was formed in the late Cretaceous. This