[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Navy aims to calm controversy over Magnuson Park contamination, " Seattle, WA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy aims to calm controversy over Magnuson Park contamination

By Mark Miller
KOMO News (Seattle, WA)
July 17, 2013

SEATTLE -- The U.S. Navy is trying to calm the controversy over  
radiation contamination at Seattle's Magunson Park, where a major  
environmental cleanup operation is just getting under way.

The Navy gave KOMO News a tour of the contaminated areas of Building  
2 at the Sand Point facility where radiation detectors confirm the  
presence of radium from the paint once used in this former military  
shop to make aircraft dials glow in the dark.

"We want to make sure the public is safe," said Leslie Yuenger with  
the U.S. Navy.

The Navy will spend the next six months removing contaminated  
portions of this building along with soil and trucking out the  
material in water-tight containers.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Navy-aims-to-calm-controversy-over- 
radiation-contamination-at-Seattles-Magunson-Park-215923931.html

For now the misspelling of Magnuson is the correct link.

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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