Hendrik Hinzel

Hendrik Hinzel is a multi-platform journalist based in New York. He studied Political Science and Middle Eastern studies at University of Freiburg in Germany and Cairo University in Egypt. He is also a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he specialized in investigative reporting and documentary film-making. His reporting trips brought him to Brazil, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Bahrain, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and to Saudi Arabia. He’s a winner of the Axel Springer Award and the Grimme Online Award.

The US Department of Energy’s laboratory in Enewetak houses a full-body counter to detect levels of cesium ingested by individuals. It was out of service when we arrived on the atoll.

Stories from quarantine: Reporters tested for radiation in the Marshall Islands

April 23, 2015Environment

This is what happens when you visit parts of the Pacific islands where the US conducted 67 nuclear tests from 1948 to 1958, exploding the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for more than a decade.