Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) whitewash response to ongoing Pohakuloa brush fire in Impact area
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) whitewash response to ongoing Pohakuloa brush fire in Impact area
Below is a short NRC response to questions about the ongoing Pohaluloa brush fire that has been burning for 1 week in the “Impact Area” of 70 years of bombing and live fire in the center of Hawaii Island. The NRC response claims the fire is not in an area containing DU but the reality is they do not know where all the DU is located and how much has been fired at PTA. DU was first used there in 1960. It has not been reported that any air monitoring has been done down wind of the fire to determine what possible toxins are in the smoke. Not by the Army, nor the State Department of Health, Civil Defense, nor EPA, NRC, etc. My experience with the Army is that they have always low balled potential problems. They have not been transparent. For years they denied that DU was ever used at Pohakuloa and other sites in Hawaii until peace activists uncovered legal documents and exposed its use. The NRC, which is suppose to regulate nuclear matters, for the most part has rubber stamped the nuclear industry, much like Bank regulators rubber stamp Wall St. crimes. I consider the NRC response unacceptable. It is based on faulty assumptions and lacks any confident air monitoring data from the present brush fire. In short, if you don’t look, you will not find. The answer to what toxins people, plants and animals may be exposed to is still blowing in the wind and smoke of the Pohakuloa brush fire.
Jim Albertiini
