The Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Dump
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The Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Dump
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you may be surprised to learn that “more than 47,800 drums and other containers of low-level radioactive waste were dumped onto the ocean floor west of San Francisco between 1946 and 1970.” (Source: The U.S. Geological Survey, a bureau of the Department of the Interior.)
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By admin, November 14, 2007 @ 8:21 PM
As usual, most of the history around the Farallons nuclear dump has been lost and found several times over, as if this were some kind of lost pirates treasure.
Sadly, there have quite a few media moments around the issue, with the last one being in the early 1990’s when a satellite mapping project uncovered the sunken aircraft carrier.
Probably the largest blast occurred when the a diving team uncovered the barrels of waste in the late 70’s. Hearings were held but the whole public outcry was quickly shutdown by calling for further investigations. As part of the whole bay area antinuclear movement one east bay group organized a giant Sponge group that could be counted on to show up with interesting costumes reminding us of the mutant sponges that the Tektite II divers found.
Barbara Boxer, who was a representative at the time helped kill one of the controversies, pushing the issue into “investigation Hell”.