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To: MrEdd

Johnston a toll may still be radioactive. Not sure.


10 posted on 02/29/2020 9:01:36 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: virgil

They were using it for emergency landings less than twenty years ago.


11 posted on 02/29/2020 9:11:28 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: virgil

Johnston Atoll is a wee bit radioactive still. I helped set up a coral sand screening system to separate the radioactive plutonium particles from ‘perfectly’ clean sand. The machine did a very good job of finding and diverting the contaminates.

At the time (late 1991 - early 1992) the country’s old chemical weapon stockpiles were being incinerated on the leeward side of the atoll. Before arriving personnel even cleared Immigration, we were given a briefing on the alarm system and an emergency response kit with respirators and atropine.

The ‘hazards’ from the Pu particles didn’t even warrant a mention in passing.


14 posted on 03/01/2020 3:34:21 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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