[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "Navy Subcontractor Breaks Silence About Treasure Island [CA] Radiation"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Subcontractor Breaks Silence About Treasure Island Radiation
A radiation expert among the first to sound the alarm about radiation  
at Treasure Island speaks publicly for the first time about the  
Navy's attempts to conceal information from the public

By Vicky Nguyen, Liz Wagner and Jeremy Carroll|
NBC Bay Area
December 12, 2013

A health physicist commissioned to survey San Francisco's Treasure  
Island for radiation has revealed for the first time to the  
Investigative Unit his belief that people never should have been  
allowed to live there.

Radiation expert Don Wadsworth was hired on a multimillion dollar  
contract to perform routine tests for radiation on the former naval  
station beginning in 2007. He says Navy officials told him they  
didn’t expect to find any radiological contamination on the island  
beyond what the Navy had already identified. But Wadsworth said he  
found radioactive material on sites throughout Treasure Island,  
including locations adjacent to occupied residences.

"My job is to protect the people and the environment and it's not  
getting done," Wadsworth said.

His company, New World Environmental, based out of Livermore, has  
performed military cleanups of radioactive sites around the world,  
including Hunters Point in San Francisco and the Navy bombing yard on  
the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico. When asked for his professional  
opinion about whether people should be living on Treasure Island, he  
responded without hesitation: "No."

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For the entire story, see
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Navy-Subcontractor-Breaks- 
Silence-About-Radiation-Contamination-at-Treasure-Island--235499911.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
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