"No Radium Risk" at Hill AFB

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Tests show no radium risk in Bldg. 214

by Kari Tilton
Hilltop Times (UT)
May 13, 2004

Official results were recently released from a test conducted here in
November 2003 indicating occupants and visitors of Bldg. 214 aren't at
risk from radioactive material left over from luminous paints used at
Hill about 50 years ago.  

Air Force Institute for Operational Health experts from Brooks
City-Base, Texas, examined the facility and recently released their
findings.  

The team also visited five other Air Force bases because people assigned
there used radium paint and repaired items coated with the radioactive
substance, during the World War II era. Radium was used in paint to make
aircraft instrument markings glow in the dark. 

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for the entire story, see
http://www.hilltoptimes.com/story.asp?edition=153&storyid=4296

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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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