More than a half century after the U.S. ignited 67 atomic weapons in the central Pacific Ocean, a former Navy base in the Bay Area continues to carry that nuclear legacy. Last week, residents were ...
The San Francisco Health Department is sounding the alarm over high levels of radioactive plutonium-239 (Pu-239) detected in the air in Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Plutonium 239 is a radioactive ...
Public health advocates say the US Navy knew for almost a year that tests had detected dangerous levels of plutonium in the air at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The Navy discovered the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President Donald Trump on ...