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"Radioactive Objects Found at San Francisco's Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Raise New Concerns"
"The discoveries raise fresh questions about the city’s plans to build thousands of homes on one of the nation’s largest and most polluted Superfund sites amid ongoing cleanup efforts."
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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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“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”
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#Farallon #OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI #nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting