Jeton Anjain ( 25 March 1933 – 1993 ) was a Minister of Health and a senator of the Marshall Islands Parliament . He received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1992 , for his efforts to help people from the Rongelap Atoll , which was subject to nuclear contamination after the test of the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb in 1954 . In 1991 , he and the Rongelap People were awarded the Right Livelihood Award for " for their steadfast struggle against United States nuclear policy in support of their right to live on an unpolluted Rongelap island . " Jeton Anjain was training as a dentist . He was appointed a health minister but he resigned in order to work for Rongelap community and seek assistance in evacuating the island as well as justice for the islanders as a senator to the Marshall Islands Parliament
Castle Bravo
Castle Bravo
Jeton Anjain