[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "Hunters Point [CA] Testing Defies US Rules"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hunters Point Testing Defies US Rules
The Navy’s new testing program began last year after allegations of fraud dogged the earlier effort to clean up and test the site.

By Jaxon Van Derbeken and Sean Myers 
NBC Bay Area (San Francisco, CO)
June 26, 2020

Preliminary testing done by the U.S. Navy to establish baseline cleanup levels of the old Hunters Point shipyard has been done on the site itself, something that appears to be prohibited under the federal government’s own cleanup guidelines, The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has learned.

The Navy’s new testing program began last year after allegations of fraud dogged the earlier effort to clean up and test the site.  

A major first step in the process is to measure so-called background radiation – how much radiation could be assumed to exist on the site had there never been a shipyard.

The Navy started testing last year on four locations of the shipyard, including one that is roughly 100 yards from Dry Dock No. 3, where crews once sandblasted dozens of contaminated ships returning from atomic bomb tests after World War II.


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For the entire story, see
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/hunters-point-testing-defies-us-rules/2315753/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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