[CPEO-MEF] "Divine Strake" explosion debated in court

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Experts: Divine Strake 'mushroom cloud' could have sickened many

By KEN RITTER
Associated Press/Las Vegas Sun (NV)
June 27, 2007

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A non-nuclear explosive test planned by the government 
could have spread lethal radioactive particles across the Nevada desert 
and beyond had it not been canceled, experts testified Wednesday.

"A new generation of 'downwinders' would have been created, with cancers 
and birth defects," said Robert Hager, a Reno lawyer who summoned 
witnesses to try to drive a stake through any future plans for the 
"Divine Strake" test at the Nevada Test Site 85 miles northwest of Las 
Vegas.

The explosion of a 700-ton fuel oil and fertilizer bomb was proposed to 
gather data about penetrating underground bunkers that produce and store 
weapons of mass destruction. But the prospect of a mushroom cloud in the 
desert prompted a lawsuit and intense opposition in Utah and Nevada, 
where critics feared it would scatter decades-old radioactive material 
from previous Cold War-era tests.

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency canceled the test in February.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2007/jun/27/062710103.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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