[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, COMMUNITY: Niagara Fall Storage Sity (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Contamination found underground at former weapons site
Radioactive leak is feared

By Aaron Besecker
BUFFALO NEWS (NY)
July 19, 2009

An underground container that holds about half of the world’s supply of 
radium may be leaking into groundwater in northwestern Niagara County, 
an advisory group to federal regulators warns.

The Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency responsible for 
investigating an area in the towns of Lewiston and Porter holding 
leftovers from the Manhattan Project, has found uranium contamination 
beneath ground level in portions of a former federal weapons site.

But corps officials insist there are no leaks in a 10-acre cell, known 
as the Interim Waste Containment Structure, constructed in the mid- 
1980s on the 191-acre Niagara Falls Storage Site as a temporary 
container for various radioactive wastes and other radiological materials.

Those substances include uranium and about half the world’s supply of 
radium.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/738086.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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