1971 photo of USS Ranger (CVA-61) in dry dock, USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), and USS Hancock (CVA-19) at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. I have an Uncle that worked there.
Posted on 11/02/2025 4:25:40 AM PST by DFG
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.
Concerns now surround the radioactive isotope Pu-239 - with a half-life of more than 24,000 years - that can emit radiation for millennia and is among the most hazardous materials handled by the US military.
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1971 photo of USS Ranger (CVA-61) in dry dock, USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), and USS Hancock (CVA-19) at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. I have an Uncle that worked there.
I’m so mad I’m furious. Jumping up and down about to bust a vessel. Oh brother.
you’ve got gay drug-using hobos pooping in the street— I’m pretty sure Plutonium is the least of their worries
Why would there be Plutonium there? Was that fuel for reactor powered carriers?
They are right to be alarmed. Airborne plutonium 239 ingested/inhaled is basically very likely to cause cancer eventually if it lodges inside the body.
Biden’s Navy.
Really odd this closed in 74 and they are just figuring this out now. By 74 we were past the “just bury crap in the ground”.
Will be fascinating to track what happens.............
One of my uncles served on the Ranger in the early 60’s.....
Said "action level" would be virtually nothing. This stinks of an "eco-cleanup" hustle for more Federill money.
Great photo by the way, back when San Francisco still had the vestiges of a port.
EPA thresholds have changed over time
What was once safe, will kill you now
I have no doubt that the contractors worked under contract to the Dept. of Energy.
The DOE has a reputation in the Nuclear Industry of being fast and loose with safety.
The site, once used for decontaminating ships exposed to nuclear testing, became so polluted that it was placed on the EPA’s Superfund list in 1989.
This would be the US ships involved in the Operation Crossroads at the Bikini Atoll.
In the test the US government detonated a nuclear weapon under the ocean in proximitee to US and capture Japanese war ships. (Japanese closer to the detonation).
All of the ships and crews were highly contaminated.
The stories are horrific of what happened to the crew members.
The ships were so highly contaminated that the gave up cleaning them and took them out to sea and scuttled them.
Maybe that’s the point..........................
My Dad was stationed there many many years ago.
Plutonium contamination rumor can be turned into money
Everyday life cannot
Dem regime expects the dem strongholds to just suck it up and take it like a trans.
“Will be fascinating to track what happens.............”
Who do you trust to do that?
“Said “action level” would be virtually nothing. This stinks of an “eco-cleanup” hustle for more Federill money.“
The problem here is that a particle of plutonium in a room would be very hard to detect with even a good counter. That tiny amount wouldn’t do anything unless you inhaled or swallowed it. Then, that’s another story.
Correct. Plutonium is an Alpha ray emitter… in other words a low level emitter. Your skin is enough to block it. The danger is inhalation. Lodged in the lung it can after years of hitting the same tissue with alpha waves, cause a cancer.
I spent several months at Hunter’s Point in 79 while my ship USS Mars (AFS 1) was being repaired after a collision with USS Cook (FF 1083).
“On 14 May 1979, the USS Cook (DE-1083), a destroyer escort, collided with the USS Mars (AFS-1), a combat stores ship, off Point Loma near San Diego, California, during heavy fog.
The collision caused significant damage to both vessels; the USS Cook’s bow was severely damaged, with approximately 20 feet of the hull smashed in, while the USS Mars sustained a hole measuring about 30 by 30 to 40 feet in its starboard side, extending below the waterline.
The damage to Mars required ballasting to list on its port side to prevent flooding of the starboard compartment.
Despite the extensive damage, both ships managed to return to San Diego under their own power.
The incident resulted in seven injuries, all from the USS Cook’s crew, who were preparing the midday meal in the galley when the collision occurred; most suffered mild burns from spilled coffee and soup, with one sailor requiring a few days of hospitalization.
Following the collision, the USS Cook underwent repairs at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, and command was temporarily reassigned after a review by Rear Admiral Edward W. Carter.
The USS Mars later resumed operations after repairs and continued its service until decommissioning in 1993.”
Welcome to California, the democrat paradise the leftists want to turn our whole country into.
OVER A YEAR AGO====BIDEN STAFF
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