Category Archives: Radiation

State will test developed portion of Hunters Point Shipyard, but critics say it won’t be enough

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State regulators wish to conduct superficial tests for radiation at a new Hunters Point housing development in the San Francisco area.  CBG’s Dan Hirsch points out in the report that, among other things, the type of testing that is being proposed for the site is inadequate and will not even detect two of the most harmful radioactive elements that have already been found at the site:  strontium-90 and plutonium-239.…