radioactive airplane gauges at Preservation Aviation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Officials order rapid cleanup of plane gauges
Radiation is 100 times normal

By Kerry Cavanaugh
Los Angeles Daily News
Saturday, June 19, 2004

Federal officials have launched a $7 million emergency cleanup of
radioactive contamination at a North Hollywood warehouse, removing more
than 1 million vintage airplane gauges that were painted with radium to
illuminate them during night flights. 

Tests conducted in May show radiation levels inside the warehouse at
10800 Burbank Blvd. -- where boxes of gauges are crammed into a maze of
12-foot-high shelves -- are 100 times greater than background for the
area. Radiation in the outdoor storage yard is about 10 times greater.

"We found that the material that's at the site, especially that in the
yard, was posing a hazard to human health and environment at the
sidewalk," said Pete Guria, chief of the Environmental Protection
Agency's emergency response section for the Western region.

Though environmental regulators have known about the radioactive gauges
at Preservation Aviation since the 1990s, EPA staffers were surprised by
the high readings and immediately began moving the boxes of radioactive
gauges away from the fence line to lower the levels near the sidewalk.
They also installed around-the-clock security.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2224061,00.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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