[CPEO-MEF] "Divine Strake" explosion delayed

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Explosion delayed until sometime in '07

By Kathy Helms
Gallup Independent (NM)
August 2, 2006

WINDOW ROCK - U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-2nd District, applauded an 
announcement Tuesday by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency that the 
Divine Strake non-nuclear explosion planned at Nevada Test Site could 
not be conducted until several months into 2007 at the earliest.

The Divine Strake non-nuclear explosion is planned for Nevada Test Site 
where atomic testing was conducted largely in the 1950s and 1960s, thus 
raising health concerns that residual contamination could be disturbed 
and redeposited downwind by new testing, whether nuclear or non-nuclear.

Reservations populated by Navajo, Hopi and Zuni tribes were not immune 
to radioactive fallout from the atomic tests, which basically blanketed 
the United States. However, to date, few tribal members have been 
compensated by the federal government as "downwinders."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.gallupindependent.com/2006/aug/080206explsn.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>
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