[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Depleted Uranium in Hawai'i

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Chain reaction
Nuclear regulators hold hearings in the Islands after the Army's 
depleted uranium problem is uncovered by chance.

Joan Conrow
Honolulu Weekly
August 26, 2009


After years of denying the existence of depleted uranium (DU) at its 
installations in Hawaii, the Army is now seeking a permit to possess 
tons of the radioactive material.

DU has been confirmed at Schofield Barracks and the Pohakuloa Training 
Area, and is suspected at the Makua Military Reservation and Kahoolawe. 
The toxic material was used to make M101 spotting rounds for the Davy 
Crockett recoilless gun, one of the smallest nuclear weapons ever built. 
Soldiers were trained on the weapon in Hawaii and at least eight other 
states throughout the 1960s.

"Enough depleted uranium remains on the sites to require an NRC 
possession license and environmental monitoring and physical security 
programs to ensure protection of the public and the environment," 
according to a press release from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
which this week is conducting hearings in Hawaii on the Army's application.

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For the entire article, see
http://honoluluweekly.com/feature/2009/08/chain-reaction/

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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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