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| Furious leaders question why they weren't warned over dangerous levels of radiation detected at former San Francisco naval shipyard |
| 2025-11-02 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] San Francisco officials are demanding answers after learning that dangerous levels of radiation were detected at the city's former naval shipyard nearly a year ago - but that no one told them until now. Air filters at the decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard revealed plutonium contamination in November 2024. It means the radiation levels are more than twice the Environmental Protection Agency's 'action level,' the threshold requiring immediate safety steps. In a blistering letter sent to the US Navy, San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Susan Philip accused federal officials of failing to alert the city after the health department only learned about the plutonium last month, nearly a year after it was first detected. 'The City and County of San Francisco is deeply concerned by both the magnitude of this exceedance and the failure to provide timely notification,' Dr. Philip wrote in the letter obtained by Mission Local. 'Such a delay undermines our ability to safeguard public health and maintain transparency. Immediate notification is a regulatory requirement and is critical for ensuring community trust and safety.' According to Dr. Philip, the contamination was discovered when workers grinding asphalt during field operations captured plutonium particles in an air filter. The revelation has sparked anger and fear in a city long haunted by the toxic legacy of the Hunters Point site - once a major naval repair facility and radiation testing ground during World War II and the Cold War. The base was shuttered in 1974 yet decades later, cleanup efforts have been dogged by scandal, falsified soil tests, and persistent health concerns among nearby residents. |
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