"Alarmingly high levels of plutonium-239 have been found at...former Hunter's Point shipyard."

#SFBA #SanFrancisco #HuntersPoint #California

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/hunters-point-shipyard-radioactive-materials-21129542.php

[Podcast] A Community of Color Contends With the Navy’s #Toxic Legacy

Decades after the Navy shuttered a #ColdWar #radiation research lab, the mess hasn’t been completely cleaned up. Listen to local voices demanding accountability amid charges of #EnvironmentalRacism.

By Rebecca Bowe, 11.25.2024

"The San Francisco Public Press presents the first half of a two-part radio documentary, '#Exposed,' opening a window into the little-known history of the #HuntersPointNavalShipyard. The sprawling abandoned naval base, in #SanFrancisco’s southeast waterfront #Bayview neighborhood, is currently the site of the city’s largest real estate development project. The base played a key role in the Cold War nuclear era, when it housed a research institution known as the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory [#NRDL], which studied the human health effects of #radiation.

"In Episode 1 of the podcast, we trace the radioactive contamination found in the shipyard soil today back to its origins, with #NuclearBomb testing in the #MarshallIslands. We also hear from #EnvironmentalJustice advocates, including one who led a health biomonitoring survey revealing that nearby residents have toxic elements stored in body tissues that match the hazardous chemicals of concern identified at the shipyard.

"This radio documentary is part of a larger multimedia package stemming from a deep dive into declassified government records produced by the radiation lab in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. Listen to Episode 2 of the podcast: 'Why the Navy Conducted Radiation Experiments on Humans.'"

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/exposed-podcast-episode-1-a-community-of-color-contends-with-the-navys-toxic-legacy/
#NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWar #NuclearWeapons #RadiationExposure #ColdWarExperiments #HuntersPoint

This was a self-inflicted contamination after the 1946 Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll:

"Navy faces lawsuit over stalled $1.2bn clean-up of San Francisco shipyard filled with radioactive waste"

#HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting @sts

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/navy-shipyard-san-francisco-lawsuit-b2570950.html

Hunter's Point is contaminated because that is where the US Navy tried to "decontaminate" ships irradiated at nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946

"San Francisco artists maintain a creative haven for 40 years—at a radioactive site"

#SF #HuntersPoint #ColdWar #RMI

https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/27/san-francisco-hunters-point-shipyard-artists/