'It's a nightmare scenario': A radioactive object was found in San Francisco's new $8 billion neighborhood

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September 20, 2018 3:45 PM

As the former home of top-secret nuclear testing facility, the site has a history of contamination. While the EPA insists that residents have no cause for alarm, environmentalists remain concerned about trace amounts of radioactive material.

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less than a foot below the area's $8 billion neighborhood.
Contact with the deck marker could produce 30,000 millirems of radiation per year — more than six times the legal limit for nuclear power plant workers.
In an email to a lawyer, San Francisco's health officer said an "independent health physicist" would investigate the issue.

The discovery of a radioactive deck marker for an

In 2002, a 75-acre swathe of land was deemed

But officials have been quick to downplay the finding. The Navy called it "

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