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Is Treasure Island toxic? Residents’ worries grow via SF Gate

  Treasure Island resident Kathryn Lundgren has been concerned for several years about the effects of contamination at the former Navy base on her family’s health. But when a group of Navy contractors dug a small radioactive fragment out of her … Continue reading

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Radiation threat on Treasure Island, report says via SF Gate

Despite six years of Navy cleanup and San Francisco city government reassurances that Treasure Island is safe, children living there might be at risk of radiation poisoning, a newly released state health department memo concludes. Earlier this year, California Department of … Continue reading

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Treasure Island soil tests raise concerns via San Francisco Chronicle

Land slated for development on Treasure Island contains elevated concentrations of cesium-137, a byproduct of nuclear fission associated with an increased risk of cancer, according to an independent analysis commissioned by the Center for Investigative Reporting. The findings, discovered through … Continue reading

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San Francisco Bay Island Radioactive Contamination via Reader Supported News

Contamination left by US navy found to have 400 times the EPA’s human exposure limits, but military branch denies report. t was called Treasure Island in honour of Robert Louis Stevenson’s pirate classic, but the artificial island off San Francisco … Continue reading

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