Navy Hit With CERCLA Suit Over Hunters Point Radiation Cleanup

The US Navy and the Environmental Protection Agency have allegedly failed to meet their obligations under CERCLA relating to the cleanup of radiological contamination at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a complaint from an environmental group says.

Radioactivity stemming from the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests “cannot be neutralized” even after the US government steam-cleaned and sandblasted 79 ships that were near test sites to remove external radiation in the early 1950s, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice says. The result was that “decontamination transferred the radioactivity from the ships to the Shipyard,” the complaint filed in the US District ...