Plutonium in Nevada Test Site Declared Not Hazardous
AEC officials in Las Vegas state that plutonium-239 contaminating about 250 square miles of the Nevada test site poses no hazard to workers or the public, though it can linger for 24,000 years.
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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1970
Page
2
AEC officials in Las Vegas state that plutonium-239 contaminating about 250 square miles of the Nevada test site poses no hazard to workers or the public, though it can linger for 24,000 years.
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Patrolman Ronald Tsukamoto, 22, the first Berkeley officer killed in the line of duty, was shot while stopping a motorcyclist in the early hours. A tall Black gunman fled in a car after firing, with no motive known. In the Bay Area pattern, similar killings followed in San Jose and San Francisco.
San Diego’s Lindbergh Field faced three bomb threats targeting airline offices. Evacuations affected 2,300 people at dawn, with searches at Pacific Southwest Airlines and Air West offices. no devices found. A later VA Hospital call also yielded no bomb, as FBI probes continue.
A fragmentary classified listing from the Independent shows a header line with a phone contact HE 5 115 and a classifed entry HE 5957.
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