2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:09:34 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, GLOBAL: Possible nuclear leak from U.S. sub in Japan
 
[The other day I sent out an article on the U.S.S. Houston in Guam, but the Japanese dimension of the story may be more significant, because of the debate over stationing the U.S.S. George Washington there. - LS]

U.S. sub may have leaked radiation in Japan

By Norimitsu Onishi
International Herald Tribune
August 2, 2008

TOKYO: A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine may have leaked a small amount of radiation as it stopped by Japan in the spring and was then deployed throughout the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese government said Saturday.

The Japanese government said that it was informed Friday by the U.S. Navy that the submarine, the USS Houston, may have discharged an amount of radiation that was too small to be considered harmful.

The chief government spokesman, Nobutaka Machimura, said at a news conference that the radioactive amount - estimated at less than half a microcurie - was too insignificant to "affect the human body or the environment."

The submarine spent a week in March in Sasebo, in western Japan, before cruising to Guam and then Hawaii, where the leak was discovered during an inspection late last month, the Japanese government said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/02/asia/japan.php
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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