[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: "Legislator presses Navy on Magnuson Park radioactivity, " Seattle, WA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Legislator presses Navy on Magnuson Park radioactivity

by Gary Chittim
KING 5 TV News (Seattle, WA)
October 21, 2014

SEATTLE -- A Washington state legislator and leader of a nuclear  
watch dog group wants residents to demand answers to radioactive  
contamination at Seattle's Magnuson Park.

Rep. Gerald Pollet said the Navy didn't report finding cancer causing  
strontium and cesium inside and outside Building 2, a maintenance  
hangar, at the former Sand Point Naval Station.

The Navy responded, saying Monday it has gone through the building  
records and can find no reason for those two radioactive substances  
to be there, but it is in the process of cleaning it up. It also  
cleaning up nuclear radium contamination outside a nearby building.  
The Navy said that contamination came from radium paint, which was  
historically used to make glow in the dark instruments for airplanes  
at the base.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.king5.com/story/tech/science/environment/2014/10/20/ 
legislator-presses-navy-on-magnuson-park-radioactive-contamination/ 
17642091/

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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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