even though the atoll may be habitable again soon, there's a problem: many of the bikini islanders (or their offspring) have never lived on the island, and haven't even visited it. there's a high unemployment rate on the marshall islands. as the marshall islands have a special agreement with the united states, unemployed people from the marshall islands can go look for jobs in the united states. it is therefore unclear how many of the original islanders or their offspring will return to the atoll.