[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, RADIATION: New Jersey Nuclear-Weapons Landfill to Get Third Cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Nuclear-Weapons Site to Get Third Cleanup New Jersey Landfill Was  
Contaminated in Late 1940s
Lawmakers Call for More Funds to Deal With Legacy of Weapons Program


By John R. Emshwiller
Wall Street Journal
March 22, 2014

MIDDLESEX, N.J. - The federal government has decided to clean up  
radioactive contamination at a landfill here that has been cleaned  
twice already, in the latest sign of the nation's struggle with the  
legacy of the U.S. nuclear-weapons program.

A spokeswoman for the Army Corps of Engineers confirmed that the  
landfill has been approved for inclusion in the Formerly Utilized  
Sites Remedial Action Program, or Fusrap. The Corps is cleaning up  
some two dozen sites around the country under Fusrap, which was  
created in the 1970s to deal with radioactive contamination left over  
from the weapons-building program and other federal atomic activities.

The Middlesex landfill was highlighted in a series of Wall Street  
Journal articles last year examining the contamination left behind at  
scores of sites in some three dozen states where factories and other  
facilities did federal nuclear work during World War II and the Cold  
War. Many of these sites are near where people live.

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Lenny Siegel
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