#hunterspoint — Public Fediverse posts
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“It appears to us that this is a cover-up,” Armstrong said. “I don’t care how low [the levels are], we still want to know.” #Navy #plutonium #HuntersPoint https://www.kqed.org/science/1999631/navy-apologizes-for-11-month-delay-in-reporting-radioactive-material-at-hunters-point
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[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 -
Spoiler alert: when they couldn't decontaminate the ships, they scuttled them at the Farallon Islands where they sit on the bottom of the Pacific until this day.
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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/
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“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”
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#Farallon #OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI #nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting
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“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”
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#Farallon #OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI #nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting
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“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”
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#Farallon #OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI #nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting
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“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”
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#Farallon #OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI #nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting
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“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”
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#Farallon #OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI #nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting
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Most of this material is from attempts to “decontaminate" ships irradiated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. You may have seen images of the navy ships beneath the low hanging mushroom cloud. The US Navy towed many of these ships to the Bay Area and one by one tried to decontaminate them at Hunter's Point. They failed to decontaminate them, but succeeded in contaminating the shipyard.
They later sunk the irradiated ships at the #Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
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Most of this material is from attempts to “decontaminate" ships irradiated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. You may have seen images of the navy ships beneath the low hanging mushroom cloud. The US Navy towed many of these ships to the Bay Area and one by one tried to decontaminate them at Hunter's Point. They failed to decontaminate them, but succeeded in contaminating the shipyard.
They later sunk the irradiated ships at the #Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
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Most of this material is from attempts to “decontaminate" ships irradiated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. You may have seen images of the navy ships beneath the low hanging mushroom cloud. The US Navy towed many of these ships to the Bay Area and one by one tried to decontaminate them at Hunter's Point. They failed to decontaminate them, but succeeded in contaminating the shipyard.
They later sunk the irradiated ships at the #Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
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Most of this material is from attempts to “decontaminate" ships irradiated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. You may have seen images of the navy ships beneath the low hanging mushroom cloud. The US Navy towed many of these ships to the Bay Area and one by one tried to decontaminate them at Hunter's Point. They failed to decontaminate them, but succeeded in contaminating the shipyard.
They later sunk the irradiated ships at the #Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
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Most of this material is from attempts to “decontaminate" ships irradiated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. You may have seen images of the navy ships beneath the low hanging mushroom cloud. The US Navy towed many of these ships to the Bay Area and one by one tried to decontaminate them at Hunter's Point. They failed to decontaminate them, but succeeded in contaminating the shipyard.
They later sunk the irradiated ships at the #Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
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"The EPA initially said the new testing “reads as if the navy is suppressing data results it doesn’t like”. #Hunterspoint #strontium90 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/25/us-navy-accused-radiocative-shipyard-waste
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Isochrone public transit map for Double Rock aka Alice Griffith public housing complex out in the Bayview, almost by Candlestick. 30+ minutes to the city core. Really shows how these communities were impacted by the loss of industrial jobs in this part of San Francisco.
#PublicHousing #Bayview #HuntersPoint #SanFrancisco