[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "Hunters Point Shipyard [CA] Contamination, Cleanup and Development"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hunters Point Shipyard Contamination, Cleanup and Development

Once home to the US Navy's largest applied nuclear testing lab, Hunters Point Shipyard inches toward a radical transformation. But radioactive contamination, false data and a $27 billion class-action lawsuit loom

By Sean Myers, Liz Wagner, Rachel Witte and Mark Villarreal
NBC Bay Area (CA)
October 15, 2018

Beginning in 1946, the Navy cleaned dozens of ships pummeled with radioactive debris during offshore atomic weapons tests and housed a nuclear defense laboratory with up to 108 radioactive isotopes at the Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco. Navy documents suggest these activities may have contaminated dozens of locations across shipyard, a federal superfund site.

An NBC Bay Area investigation found the Navy identified 91 locations as potentially contaminated in a 2004 report, but never tested hundreds of other buildings and sites within the square-mile plot. The Navy says the "impacted" sites represent a significant portion of the shipyard.

The 2004 report, called a Historical Radiological Assessment, focuses on the radiological history of the site. It is based on documents, maps and firsthand accounts that indicate a building or area could be radiologically contaminated due to past Navy operations.

It is unclear if the Navy has deemed any other sites to be potentially impacted by radioactive contamination since it released its 2004 report. It is also unclear if the cleanup has extended beyond what was initially believed to be contaminated when the assessment was completed.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/San-Francisco-Hunters-Point-Contamination-Cleanup-Development-494440271.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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