[CPEO-IRF] Alameda Point (CA) radioactive material

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Radioactive Boogeyman Haunts Point

by Marc Albert
Alameda Sun (CA)
September 21, 2007

Quantities of highly radioactive isotopes, including depleted uranium 
and cesium-137, were stored for five years in a Quonset hut at the 
former Alameda Naval Air Station.

According to U.S. Navy officials, the radioactive material was put into 
the building seven years ago after it was removed from other buildings 
on the now-decommissioned base.

The radioactive material was removed from building 346, a corrugated 
steel Quonset hut that the Navy plans to tear down, in 2005, according 
to Thomas Macchiarella, the Navy Base Closure and Realignment Commission 
environmental coordinator.

"The material was stored there in 2000," said Erica Spinelli, a 
historian working for the Navy. Spinelli said the material was 
classified as "investigation-derived waste," and was moved "during the 
cleanup of buildings five and 400 in July 2000."

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For the entire article, see
http://alamedasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2061&Itemid=10

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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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