2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:14:29 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "State will test developed portion of Hunters Point Shipyard [CA], but critics say it won’t be enough"
 
State will test developed portion of Hunters Point Shipyard, but critics say it won’t be enough

by J.K. Dinner 
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
June 19, 2018 

California health officials said Tuesday they will begin testing in July on the hilltop portion of the former Hunters Point Shipyard currently under development, a process state officials say should put to rest the fears that harmful levels of radioactive materials are buried among the burgeoning neighborhood’s handsome townhomes and grassy dog runs.

The California Department of Public Health told The Chronicle that the work, which is scheduled to be wrapped up in the fall, will “address the radiological health and safety of the environment” of the area known as Parcel A, where 450 homes are either completed or under construction. The Navy will pay for the work.

But experts and shipyard residents are already questioning whether the proposed method of testing - using sodium iodide detectors - will adequately determine whether the soil at Parcel A is clean.

Dan Hirsch, retired director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at UC Santa Cruz, said that the “gamma radiation” scanners the state is proposing will not detect two of the most harmful isotopes found at the Hunters Point Superfund site, strontium-90 and plutonium-239.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/State-will-test-developed-portion-of-Hunters-13009194.php

See also https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Hunters-Point-shipyard-soil-scandal-widens-with-12963202.php

There have been many recent stories in the Bay Area press about the Hunters Point radiation scandal. You can find them with your search engine.

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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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