[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "Navy sought to stifle radiation concerns about Treasure Island" (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy sought to stifle radiation concerns about Treasure Island
Emails show military urged health regulators to not put worries in  
writing

By: Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski
Bay Citizen (CA)
August 28, 2012

As U.S. Navy officials readied a report this summer acknowledging a  
broader history of radioactive contamination at Treasure Island, they  
also sought to prevent California health officials from adding to the  
written record their concerns that the cleanup had been mishandled,  
according to internal emails.

The Navy acknowledged for the first time on Aug. 6 that the former  
Treasure Island Naval Station, where San Francisco plans to build a  
20,000-resident high-rise community, was home to a repair and salvage  
operation for the Pacific fleet and that some of those ships could  
have been contaminated with radiation. The draft report also said  
that a school preparing sailors for nuclear warfare might have left  
behind radioactive residue.

The study came in response to regulators with the California  
Department of Public Health, who since 2010 have pressed for details  
after cleanup workers found radioactive waste in unexpected locations.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.baycitizen.org/environment/story/navy-sought-stifle- 
radiation-concerns/

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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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