[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Nuclear testing remnants remain radioactive"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report: Nuclear testing remnants remain radioactive

By KEITH ROGERS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL (NV)
November 20, 2014

Radioactive remnants from decades of nuclear bomb tests remain mostly  
in underground detonation sites at the Nevada National Security Site.

That was the upshot of the annual environmental monitoring report  
presented Wednesday night by Department of Energy staff and  
contractors to a citizens panel known as the Nevada Site Specific  
Advisory Board.

"What we attempted to do is a better job of putting groundwater  
monitoring into one section and make it more presentable to the  
public," said Kathryn Knapp, a health physicist and DOE’s program  
manager for the annual environmental report.

Knapp and other scientists discussed the 270-page monitoring report  
outside the meeting at the National Atomic Testing Museum. They said  
it will be a very long time before tritium, the primary isotope they  
are tracking, travels through groundwater layers and reaches any off- 
site water supply wells. By then, tritium will have decayed to levels  
considered well within the safe drinking water standard.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/report-nuclear-testing- 
remnants-remain-radioactive

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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