[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "Navy Apologizes for 11-Month Delay in Reporting Radioactive Material at Hunters Point, " CA

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Apologizes for 11-Month Delay in Reporting Radioactive Material at Hunters Point

By Ezra David Romero
KQED Public Media (CA)
December 15, 2025

The U.S. Navy apologized to city leaders during a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing on Monday for waiting 11 months before disclosing to residents that the agency had detected airborne radioactive material at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.

The Navy alerted San Francisco health officials in October that it had discovered elevated levels of plutonium-239 in November of last year. The material is highly radioactive and used to create nuclear weapons. Breathing in tiny particles of the substance is dangerous over time and can cause health issues like lung cancer. Community groups and at least one San Francisco supervisor called the 11-month delay “unacceptable.”

The Navy found the sample in an area known as Parcel C, adjacent to a hill covered in condo buildings where hundreds of families live, and nearby a public park with a view of the shipyard. The Navy had previously cleared that area for redevelopment two decades ago.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.kqed.org/science/1999631/navy-apologizes-for-11-month-delay-in-reporting-radioactive-material-at-hunters-point

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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