This report confirms radioactive leakage into the Bering Sea from the world's largest underground nuclear explosion. Government data show americium-241 leaking from all three nuclear blast sites under Amchitka Island, Alaska. Americium-241 is a radionuclide with a 433-year half-life. It is produced by the decay of plutonium that fueled the bombs. The full extent of the leakage from the Amchitka nuclear blast sites is yet unknown.
Nuclear Flashback Part 2 chronicles problems encountered by independent scientists when results do not conform with the government's vested interests. Norm Buske analyzed more than 1,600 pages of DOE's own data to trace the government's corruption of sample gathering, data management, violations of laboratory operating procedures, analyses, and subsequent reporting delays. Greenpeace's unique public oversight role in this study provides a first-hand look at methods by which the Department of Energy disavows evidence of radioactive leakage at Amchitka. This is the "Amchitka example" of a system-wide problem at DOE.
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A report confirming radioactive leakage into the Bering Sea from the world's largest underground nuclear explosion.