[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "Radioactive object found near homes at Hunters Point shipyard" (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Radioactive object found near homes at Hunters Point shipyard

by Jason Fagone and Cynthia Dizzies 
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
September 14, 2018

A highly radioactive object has been discovered at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard next to a housing area that has been declared safe and free of radioactive contamination for more than a decade, The Chronicle has learned.

The finding is the latest problem at San Francisco’s most ambitious redevelopment project in a century — an effort to transform a 500-acre Superfund waste site into a bustling waterfront neighborhood of 12,000 homes.

The object — a radium deck marker about the size of a silver dollar, 1½ inches across — was unearthed Tuesday on a grassy slope beneath a stretch of newly built condos, less than a foot below ground. The state health department revealed the information Thursday in a “Progress Update” letter sent to the shipyard homeowners’ association and obtained by The Chronicle.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Radioactive-object-found-near-homes-at-Hunters-13228476.php

See also Navy’s Hunters Point retesting plan draws on questionable cost-cutting study
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Navy-s-Hunters-Point-retesting-plan-draws-on-13232708.php

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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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