[CPEO-MEF] Amchitka - looking for radiation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Radioactivity is monitored on Amchitka


NED ROZELL
ALASKA SCIENCE (Anchorage Daily News)
December 19, 2004 

After Stephen Jewett and his diving partners emerged from the chilly
waters of the Aleutians Islands last summer, crew members of the Ocean
Explorer scanned their bodies with Geiger counters. Checking for nuclear
contamination isn't standard diving protocol, but they were working off
Amchitka Island, the site of three atomic blasts in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Jewett is a research professor at UAF's Institute of Marine Science who
was diving with colleagues off Amchitka to get samples of fish and other
marine life, bottom water and sediments to check for effects of the
nuclear testing. The Geiger counter stayed silent throughout their
June-July 2004 mission in the Aleutians.

Jewett was part of a crew sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy to
sample the aquatic life off Amchitka as part of a larger look at how the
area has responded to three nuclear blasts.

Amchitka's nuclear legacy began in 1964, when officials with the
Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission needed a place to
test nuclear devices that were too large for the Nevada Test Site. 

They chose vacant Amchitka Island, about 1,400 miles west of Anchorage.

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