Alaska atomic site leaks radiation - news story

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@ix.netcom.com>]

Just read this article. Might be of interest.

*** Alaska atomic site leaks radiation

Contrary to government findings, the site of the biggest U.S.
underground nuclear test on an island off Alaska is leaking
radioactivity into the Bering Sea, Greenpeace said Wednesday. Amchitka
Island in the Aleutian Islands was the site of three underground
nuclear tests in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the single
largest underground test called Project Cannikin. Greenpeace, in a
report issued 25 years after the blast, said the Cannikin site is
leaking radiation because the underground explosion occurred too close
to the surface

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http://www.merc.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=408793-9ed

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