[CPEO-IRF] McClellan Air Force Base waste pits

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic-pits cleanup dropped
Air Force's plan to seal sites at old McClellan base stirs outcry over 
safety.

By Chris Bowman
Sacramento Bee (CA)
May 21, 2007

The Defense Department plans to skip cleanup of the largest and most 
hazardous waste sites at the former McClellan Air Force Base as it 
transfers the old graves of radioactive and toxic junk to private 
development.

State health officials say the plan is unacceptable and are calling for 
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to intervene.

Air Force officials were surprised to find as many as 43 deteriorating 
barrels of high-level radioactive waste in a 2000-02 excavation of one 
site, according to a state health review of the proposal obtained by The 
Bee.

Ten more unlined waste trenches have not been exhumed, leading health 
authorities to question whether those pits also contain strongly 
radioactive plutonium, americium and cesium.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/187905.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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