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The soil at the proposed Divine Strake blast site in Area 16 of the Nevada Test Site is suspected to contain a myriad of radioactive isotopes, including Plutonium-239, Strontium-90, Americium-241 and Cesium-137, from prior nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site.  These long-lived radioactive particles are not naturally occurring but rather are the byproducts of an atomic explosion or, as with the case of Plutonium-239 (the primary trigger used in most nuclear explosives), manufactured in a nuclear reactor.   The health concern about Divine Strake is that these man-made radioisotopes - which remain 'hot' (slang for radioactively lethal) for hundreds to hundreds of thousands of years - will be spewed  into a 10,000 foot-high dust cloud that will travel to the East Coast.   

How did the soil in Area 16 (at the blast site) get contaminated?  Richard L. Miller, author of two books on nuclear fallout from atomic testing, concluded that the Divine Strake test site could be contaminated by the fallout from six tests - Turk, Coulomb B, Kepler, Galileo, Shasta, and Smoky - that were conducted in the 1950s.   The six tests were conducted within eight miles of the Divine Strake test site.  One of the tests, Coulomb B, was actually a 'safety experiment,' involving the dispersal of plutonium-239.   For more information on how fallout from these tests drifted onto Area 16, where the blast site of Divine Strake is located, read: 'A new mushroom cloud at the NTS.'  




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Do you think there's a conflict of interest here?

The Nevada Test Site is overseen by NSTec, short for National Security Technologies, LLC, a consortium of companies, managed by Northrop Grumman and includes AECOM Technology Corp. of Los Angeles, CH2M Hill Companies Ltd. of Englewood, Colo. and Nuclear Fuel Services Inc. of Erwin, Tenn.  In early 2006, NSTec was awarded a $2.5 billion, 5-year contract (that can be extended for another five years depending on performance) to oversee and manage the Nevada Test Site.  NSTec’s main administrative office is located at 2621 Losee Road, Las Vegas, adjacent to the Nevada Site Office for the NNSA.  Annual revenues in 2005 for NSTec were estimated at $140 million.   

NSTec has four divisions: Experimentation and Stockpile Stewardship (monitoring and maintaining nuclear weapons), Environmental Management (nuclear material handling and storage), Homeland Security & Defense Applications (national defense matters and security and threat prevention), and Operations and Infrastructure.

Guess what?   NSTec has created a corporate  giving program to support 'charitable organizations, primarily in the areas where we live and work.'  If NSTec really cares about its stakeholders in the communities where  it does business, then please process our request for a charitable contribution  (Did you know that Northrop Grumman supports PBS? )

News about the Nevada Test Site:

October 12, 2006 - The Spectrum - Thyroditis linked to fallout

October 12, 2006 - Deseret News - Fallout-thyroid link gets boost - New downwind study headed by U. professor

March 30, 2005 - Bush Administration Kills Nuclear Fallout Study - Downwinders Be Damned

September 25, 2006 - Las Vegas Review-Journal  Test site workers' records dumped - 25 years of data listed tunnel comings, goings

He said managers also provided the miners with an ample supply of beer and pizza. The beer was for flushing contaminants from the body.

"They would pacify you to keep your mind off of it. They would bring beer and told us it would keep your kidneys flushed. ... They really didn't care," he said.

 

 

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