[CPEO-MEF] Camp Lejeune (NC) radiation

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Report: No Abnormal Radiation at Lejeune

By MIKE BAKER
Associated Press
November 30, 2007

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — There are no unnatural levels of radioactivity at a 
former Navy research facility at Camp Lejeune or near a rifle range at 
the base where material from the laboratory was buried decades ago, 
according to an analysis conducted for the military.

Officials at Camp Lejeune, the Marine Corps' primary base on the 
Atlantic Ocean, sought the analysis after the discovery of a document 
earlier this year that showed the Navy had buried 160 pounds of soil and 
two animal carcasses laced with strontium-90, an isotope that causes 
cancer and leukemia, in a remote area near the rifle range.

According to the paperwork, the waste was later recovered, "safely 
stored" and was awaiting shipment to an approved disposal site in South 
Carolina. But base officials said that because of record keeping 
practices in the early 1980s, the Marine Corps couldn't find proof the 
material had been moved.

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For the entire article, see
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hMq-BfLC4VJHIUuPsAVF5AZZOfUwD8T8ESHO0

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