[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: Plutonium at Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, CA

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. Navy found elevated plutonium in Bayview — S.F. says it was kept in the dark
Navy detected twice recommended levels at Hunters Point Shipyard in November 2024. City says it was only told 11 months later.

by YUJIE ZHOU and  MARINA NEWMAN
Mission LoCal (San Francisco, CA)
October 30, 2025

Radioactive plutonium was found in the air above Bayview-Hunters Point at twice the federal government’s recommended levels, according to a letter from San Francisco’s chief health officer sent to the U.S. Navy today. 

The plutonium was found above a parcel in the Hunter Point Shipyard, a Superfund site that has seen decades of radioactive pollution. The measurements were made after years of remediation, and the Shipyard is now home to hundreds of housing units.
The levels of plutonium detected were about double the safe concentration known as “action levels,” according to the letter from Dr. Susan Philip, San Francisco’s health officer. An action level is a threshold that would trigger further investigation

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For the entire article, see
https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/navy-elevated-plutonium-bayview/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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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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