[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Searching for uranium bullets at the Springfield (MA) Armory

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State checking Springfield campus for uranium from old bullets

By Kay Lazar
Boston Globe
March 17, 2011

State public health investigators will be scouring Springfield  
Technical Community College today, searching for more than 1,000  
rounds of used ammunition containing depleted uranium that might have  
been left behind by the Army 40 years ago.

Army officials recently notified the state Department of Public  
Health that an estimated 1,400 "spotting rounds" had been shipped in  
the early- to mid-1960s to what was then the Springfield Armory. The  
rounds, used at a gun range, contain small amounts of depleted  
uranium, but they are not generally considered hazardous, health  
officials said.

"The risk to public health is extremely low, but we thought it  
important to make people aware of this because they will be seeing  
people with portable gauges, seeing if they can detect radiation,"  
said Suzanne Condon, director of the state Bureau of Environmental  
Health.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/03/17/ 
state_checking_springfield_campus_for_uranium_from_old_bullets/

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Lenny Siegel
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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