*San Francisco officials and advocates are raising alarms that the U.S. Navy failed to alert the public to high levels of airborne radioactive material detected almost a year ago at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. According to a notice warning community groups in neighborhoods around the defunct base, the Navy notified the San Francisco Department of Public Health only this month about elevated levels of plutonium-239 found last November.*
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*San Francisco officials and advocates are raising alarms that the U.S. Navy failed to alert the public to high levels of airborne radioactive material detected almost a year ago at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. According to a notice warning community groups in neighborhoods around the defunct base, the Navy notified the San Francisco Department of Public Health only this month about elevated levels of plutonium-239 found last November.*
https://www.kqed.org/science/1999023/navy-took-11-months-to-alert-sf-to-airborne-plutonium-at-hunters-point-shipyard-site
What does elevated mean?
Don’t worry the article doesn’t actually give measurements or specifics.
I’m old enough to remember when people posted bright red charts showing increased radiation in the SF bay from…..Fukushima in Japan.
If you know the history of Hunters Point and radiation, this ain’t the first, second or even the third they’ve held back on information
All I know is that my death have never been whiter