[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Nevada Test Site monitoring wells

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Well drilling may confirm contamination

By MARK WAITE
Pahrump Valley Times (NV)
June 12, 2009

Nine wells will be drilled in the Pahute Mesa region of the Nevada Test 
Site at the suggestion of the NTS Community Advisory Board, to reconfirm 
computer models that suggest contamination from nuclear testing may 
migrate off the test site.

The U.S. Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security 
Administration announced the cost of $5 million to $7 million to drill 
each well would come in part from the American Recovery and Reinvestment 
Act, commonly known as the economic stimulus package.

The drilling is the latest effort in a long-term program to define the 
location and extent of groundwater contamination from nuclear testing 
between 1951 and 1992. In a prepared statement, the NNSA states sampling 
activities have identified contamination near historic nuclear test sites.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2009/Jun-12-Fri-2009/news/29320625.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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