Re: Alaska atomic site leaks radiation - news story

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Subject: Alaska atomic site leaks radiation - news story
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at internet-ext
Date:    10/30/96 8:48 AM


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
     
 For the full text story, see
http://www.merc.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=408793-9ed
     
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ICN Dosimetry Division
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