<sod>[[Radioactive]] fallout was spread eastward onto the inhabited [[Rongelap Atoll|Rongelap]] and [[Rongerik Atoll|Rongerik]] atolls, which were evacuated<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2009/06/22/les-cobayes-du-dr-folamour_1209927_3244.html |title=Les cobayes du Dr Folamour |work=Le Monde |language=French |date=June 22, 2009 |accessdate=2016-05-20}}</ref> 48 hours after the detonation.<ref name="Nuclear Issues">{{cite web| url=http://www.rmiembassyus.org/Nuclear%20Issues.htm| title=Nuclear Issues| accessdate=2016-05-20}}</ref> Ultimately, 15 islands and atolls were contaminated, and by 1963 Marshall Islands natives began to suffer from thyroid tumors, including 20 of 29 Rongelap children at the time of Bravo, and many [[birth defect]]s were reported.{{medical citation needed}} The islanders received compensation from the U.S. federal government, relative to how much contamination they received, beginning in 1956; by 1995 the Nuclear Claims Tribunal reported that it had awarded $43.2 million, nearly its entire fund, to 1,196 claimants for 1,311 illnesses.<ref name="Nuclear Issues"/> A medical study, named [[Project 4.1]], studied the effects of the fallout on the islanders.<ref name="Nuclear Issues"/><eod>
<sod>[[Radioactive]] fallout was spread eastward onto the inhabited [[Rongelap Atoll|Rongelap]] and [[Rongerik Atoll|Rongerik]] atolls, which were evacuated<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2009/06/22/les-cobayes-du-dr-folamour_1209927_3244.html |title=Les cobayes du Dr Folamour |work=Le Monde |language=French |date=June 22, 2009 |accessdate=2016-05-20}}</ref> 48 hours after the detonation.<ref name="Nuclear Issues">{{cite web| url=http://www.rmiembassyus.org/Nuclear%20Issues.htm| title=Nuclear Issues| accessdate=2016-05-20}}</ref> Ultimately, 15 islands and atolls were contaminated, and by 1963 Marshall Islands natives began to suffer from thyroid tumors, including 20 of 29 Rongelap children at the time of Bravo, and many [[birth defect]]s were reported.{{medical citation needed|date=October 2016}} The islanders received compensation from the U.S. federal government, relative to how much contamination they received, beginning in 1956; by 1995 the Nuclear Claims Tribunal reported that it had awarded $43.2 million, nearly its entire fund, to 1,196 claimants for 1,311 illnesses.<ref name="Nuclear Issues"/> A medical study, named [[Project 4.1]], studied the effects of the fallout on the islanders.<ref name="Nuclear Issues"/><eod>