In 1937, an artificial island called Treasure Island was built from fill and sand for the 1939-1940 Golden Gate International Exposition to celebrate the recently completed Golden Gate Bridge and the Oakland Bay Bridge. Treasure Island was purchased by the U.S. Navy during World War II for use as a naval training academy.
Today I am going to blog about problems with the military handling of nuclear materials in the United Kingdom.
Last week I wrote a couple of posts about the public presentation by representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy and Washington State with respect to the cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. In the blog posts, I mentioned that there was a serious legal conflict between the U.S. DoE and Washington over the cleanup of all the radioactive wastes polluting the site from decades of work on nuclear weapons for the United States arsenal.
I have blogged about nuclear issues in Ukraine related to the recent political turbulence. With the situation deteriorating, I decided that I would revisit the topic.
(Continued from Part One)
