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"content": "\u003cp>It’s too soon to say whether the story of James Flavy Coy Brown is an anomaly, as Nevada regulators claim, or if budget-stressed mental health service professionals are “dumping” disoriented, mentally ill people on the rest of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If one thing is certain, it’s that a lot of people are now actively engaged in answering that question. Among them: at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/leavinglasvegas/\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>, city attorney’s offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/hospitals.aspx\">commission\u003c/a> that certifies hospitals in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s return to the beginning, to the story of a man who showed up at a Greyhound bus station in Sacramento on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/07/5322199/cast-out-by-nevada-he-finds-kindness.html\">Feb. 12\u003c/a>. Brown suffers from \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=schizophrenia+definition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a\">schizophrenia\u003c/a>, which among other things makes it difficult for a person to think clearly. Fortunately for him, Brown was thinking clearly enough that morning to head toward a local police station and ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story made it to the Sacramento Bee through \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacloaves.org/\">Loaves & Fishes\u003c/a>, a local provider of services to the homeless. The compelling nature of Brown’s adventure raised questions that went well beyond how one man got put on a bus to a city where he’d never been.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had no friends or family there. He had only a few days’ worth of medication and a few bottles of Ensure. He had no plan for continuing medical treatment. It looked a lot like Las Vegas’ Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital was trying to get rid of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bee’s Phillip Reese sat down with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201304240850/b\">California Report\u003c/a> and explained where things went from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up,” Reese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brown eventually found a new home in North Carolina with his daughter, but in the meantime the Nevada legislature became interested in the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those hearings, they mentioned that they had sent around 100 people to California, just in the last seven or eight months,” Reese said. “And potentially many more to other states. So we had a feeling that this was not an isolated incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Bee began reviewing five years’ worth of Greyhound bus receipts that Nevada’s \u003ca href=\"http://mhds.state.nv.us/\">mental health division\u003c/a> had purchased. The reporters put together an interactive \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">map\u003c/a> showing where patients ended up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Visit the Sacramento Bee for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">interactive version\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/24/the-hunt-is-on-for-1500-psychiatric-patients-a-nev/patientbusingmap-sacbee/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95201\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-95201\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/PatientBusingMap-SacBee-1024x785.png\" alt=\"PatientBusingMap-SacBee\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">Via the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>. Source: Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services; data for-mid 2008 to early 2013; Analysis by Phillip Reese. Interactive by Nathaniel Levine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials at the main hospital in question, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, said a lot of people come to Nevada from somewhere else. They said the Brown case was an anomaly and that in all other cases there was a close family member or friend waiting at the destination to receive the patient who gets put on a bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To confirm that assertion, the Bee called at least 10 mental health agencies in counties all over California. Most were completely surprised at Nevada officials’ assertions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco told us that they’ve had at least two patients in the last year alone come from this particular facility, Rawson-Neal, without a plan or family members,” Reese said. “[They] just showed up, in the way that Mr. Brown did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Bee’s review of bus records, 36 patients took buses to San Francisco. Without talking to those people, it’s hard to know what happened once they got to the city. They might have sought help. They might not have. They might be in San Francisco now. They might be elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese said he and his colleagues are trying to track down patients, as well as Rawson-Neal employees and former employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hampered a bit, and rightfully so, by patient privacy laws,” Reese said. “The Greyhound bus receipts had the names blacked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada regulators told the Bee they reviewed protocols and instituted new rules that include requiring high-level approval of a Greyhound trip and a clear plan in place at the other end of the line for the patient. They also said they have taken disciplinary action related to Brown’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cross-state busing of patients might not be considered a best practice in mental health care, but is it illegal? Reese said California’s Justice Department isn’t sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, though, has laws on the books explicitly prohibiting patient “dumping” of any kind, because it’s something its own local hospitals did in the past. The San Francisco city attorney’s office is checking local codes that might provide grounds for a civil action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of patients bused out of Nevada were shipped to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese points to “severe” budget cuts in Nevada. The bus trips began to spike in 2009, around the same time a recent round of budget cuts took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, he said, “They never had an elaborate safety net for mentally ill patients to begin with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATE [4/26/13]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARSON CITY, Nev. 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Source: Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services; data for-mid 2008 to early 2013; Analysis by Phillip Reese. Interactive by Nathaniel Levine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials at the main hospital in question, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, said a lot of people come to Nevada from somewhere else. They said the Brown case was an anomaly and that in all other cases there was a close family member or friend waiting at the destination to receive the patient who gets put on a bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To confirm that assertion, the Bee called at least 10 mental health agencies in counties all over California. 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"content": "\u003cp>There were about 2,000 California competitors at the Boston Marathon, with hundreds from the Bay Area. Many of them witnessed \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/2013/04/15/live-blog-multiple-explosions-at-boston-marathon-finish-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday’s explosions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94255\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/15/boston-marathon-blasts-bay-area-witnesses-share-their-stories/multiple-people-injured-after-explosions-near-finish-line-at-boston-marathon/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94255\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94255\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/166666091-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A runner reacts near Kenmore Square after two bombs exploded during the 117th Boston Marathon. (Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A runner reacts near Kenmore Square after two bombs exploded during the 117th Boston Marathon. (Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Dunlap of Woodside \u003c/strong>had finished the race and was in a pub near the finish line:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a loud boom, then a second one, and then thousands of people running as fast as possible through a barricaded area. The explosion shook the windows of the pub I was in, but that was nothing compared to watching thousands flee. Then shock, crying, and people coming saying they saw limbs blown off, bodies, etc. Crazy. But there are literally hundreds of medical personnel, police and volunteers on site at the finish and they responded immediately. In less than a minute, the area was contained. They are doing an amazing job. And, as you can imagine, the phones are lighting up with concerned friends and family. I have received 100+ texts, emails within 20 minutes of the explosion, and everyone around me is doing the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dean Karnazes of San Francisco\u003c/strong>, a world-renowned marathoner, said he finished about 40 minutes before the blasts and that downtown Boston erupted into chaos immediately afterward:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s Patriots’ Day, so it’s a state holiday. It’s the most glorious day ever in Boston. From the start, for 26.2 miles, it’s a fanfare. I’m almost tearing up right now because so much happened today in not a great way. And even as I stand here with my finishing medal around my neck, it’s almost a tragedy to put it around my neck knowing other people were injured or killed during the event—it just takes something away from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim McNevin of San Diego\u003c/strong> a coach with PR Marathon training, had completed the course and was resting about two blocks away when the explosions happened:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody’s in shock. You know, I’ve done the Boston Marathon nine years in a row now, and at the end of the race we all get together and it’s a celebration, and no one’s celebrating … it’s awful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lucretia Ausse of Berkeley\u003c/strong> just crossed the finish line three minutes before the first explosion went off:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was at the third station getting my medal when the first explosion occurred, and we all gasped and turned and saw a huge plume of white smoke. And then, not too long after that, a second one occurred, and there was another huge plume of white smoke. And about that time, people started to get panicked. … The first explosion — this is really wild — the first explosion sounded like a water cannon. I thought, ‘Wow, why would they be doing water cannon now?’ You know, sometimes they do water cannons at the beginning of a race, but the first explosion sounded like a water cannon and it was really odd. Why would they do that now? … So, the race officials immediately had us moving away. People did get panicked. They were nervous, they were on their phones, they were trying to reach people, they really wanted to get their gear checked quickly. So, we didn’t know what was going on. All we knew was we were told to move away from the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really disturbing, I came to do the Boston Marathon, and the marathon went swimmingly. It was a fabulous marathon. It’s really well organized. And there’s so many spectators and such incredible crowd support that it’s a joy to be out on the race course and then to have this happen — it chilled my heart. Because the first thing that I thought of was: There are so many spectators down there, not just runners, but so many spectators lining the streets that if an explosion occurred near the spectators, it’s going to be serious. And, as we’re speaking, the sirens still haven’t stopped.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Phillip Kent\u003c/strong> was one of about 20 people running with the L.A. Leggers. He was 20 yards from the finish line during the first explosion:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was coming up on the finishing line, about 20 yards from the finishing line, the explosion was right there to the left. I was 20 yards away. I felt the concussion on my lungs and my ears. I looked up and saw parts of the building, major chunks of cement, just pouring down on the sidewalk on top of people. It was very devastating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then ten seconds later another explosion went off just behind me about 20 yards about the same level. At that point chaos broke out. Spectators were pouring out onto the race course trying to get away from the buildings and other explosions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beth Goldstein of San Francisco\u003c/strong> was retrieving her belongings a few blocks from the finish line when she heard two explosions and then…nothing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was pretty much dead silence after that. I mean everyone, no one spoke and the sirens didn’t start for probably about three to five minutes but it felt longer. But it was just this eerie dead silence. And then some people started to cry, I don’t know if there were just — had just run a marathon or were frazzled already, but there was definitely a dread feeling that some people immediately had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dino Piacentini of San Francisco\u003c/strong> heard the explosions, but did not know what had happened until friends and family began contacting him: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think about what should be this really euphoric, thrilling moment and when something like this happens…there are people who didn’t get to finish, and that’s fine. But can you imagine being held and saying ‘oh we’re stopping the race’, and knowing that your family is waiting for you at this square to cheer you on and that something may have happened to them? I couldn’t even imagine and it’s just devastating, it’s horrible…I want [to] come back. I feel like I’ve got to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elvin Wong of Cupertino\u003c/strong> attends Boston University. He was close to the finish line at a food court during the explosions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We first heard one small pop. We didn’t know it was an explosion, because it was like, it was just like a rumble. And then, right afterwards, we heard a massive, just this explosion, and then it rumbled the building. And then everybody started bolting out of the food court, the mall. And then we saw smoke coming down from Copley Square, which is where the finish line is. And then we definitely knew it was an explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time we got out of there, there were a lot of people, just everybody clearing out the streets. There were a lot of people crying in the streets, trying to get to people. but there were, the phone lines were all down, cause nobody could get, you know, any calls. I couldn’t even call out myself. All the lines were down and I heard somewhere they were actually going to take down the cell phone towers [signal] for security reasons. Once we got about a mile out of that area … by the time we ran and got about a mile outside the perimeter, the area, people were still running and cheering, as if, you know, they were still going. There were still people running along the marathon, on the street, and a lot of people were still cheering on their friends and family. It seems like there was nothing really going on out there. And then you can see people who know about it, and people who don’t know about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jonathan Zingman of Oakland\u003c/strong> heard the explosion after he finished the race. But then he had to find his wife, daughter and father who were closer to the blasts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just everybody’s absolutely in shock. We were watching the local news and they repeated over and over it is a huge party; the city shuts down. Twenty-seven thousand runners ran today. Everybody is out there to have a good time, and everybody was in shock. We were in the common room in the dorm and all the kids were just in shock seeing this kind of thing…You just can’t imagine that someone would want to ruin this great event. And its just so sad that it’s going to have spoiled it and destroyed it and I think the other marathons becausee nobody is going to want to risk it again, but who knows what they’re going to do about it. 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And there’s so many spectators and such incredible crowd support that it’s a joy to be out on the race course and then to have this happen — it chilled my heart. Because the first thing that I thought of was: There are so many spectators down there, not just runners, but so many spectators lining the streets that if an explosion occurred near the spectators, it’s going to be serious. And, as we’re speaking, the sirens still haven’t stopped.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Phillip Kent\u003c/strong> was one of about 20 people running with the L.A. Leggers. He was 20 yards from the finish line during the first explosion:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was coming up on the finishing line, about 20 yards from the finishing line, the explosion was right there to the left. I was 20 yards away. I felt the concussion on my lungs and my ears. I looked up and saw parts of the building, major chunks of cement, just pouring down on the sidewalk on top of people. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski, Center for Investigative Reporting \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land slated for development on Treasure Island contains elevated concentrations of cesium-137, a byproduct of nuclear fission associated with an increased risk of cancer, according to an independent analysis commissioned by the Center for Investigative Reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-94067\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/baycitizenlogo3.jpg\" alt=\"baycitizenlogo3\" width=\"224\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>The findings, discovered through soil samples gathered by reporters and tested by two independent certified laboratories, appear to undermine some past statements by the U.S. Navy about the land’s historic uses and the present condition of the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results show cesium-137 levels up to three times that previously acknowledged by the Navy and at least 60 percent higher than the Navy’s own thresholds for environmental safety.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The questions raised by your testing should be fully vetted by the Navy,” said Gary Butner, former chief of the radiologic health branch at the California Department of Public Health, who was a state watchdog for the Treasure Island cleanup until he retired in 2011. “I just don’t have a sense there’s a strong commitment to go and (clean) the site. They just don’t want to spend any money there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94071\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 298px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/12/nuclear-byproduct-levels-on-treasure-island-higher-than-navy-disclosed/treasureisland-0412/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94071\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94071\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/TreasureIsland-0412.jpg\" alt=\"Treasure Island radiation sign\" width=\"298\" height=\"198\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Treasure Island is the site of an ongoing radiation cleanup operation that some California health authorities have faulted for overlooking the possibility of contamination from nuclear fission byproducts, such as cesium-137.\u003cbr>(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Exposure to cesium-137 “can result in cancer risks much higher than typical environmental exposures,” according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concentrations discovered by \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\">CIR\u003c/a> do not necessarily confirm a health hazard, according to Jan Beyea, a prominent nuclear physicist specializing in the health effects of low-level radiation. They are no greater than common contamination worldwide from 20th-century nuclear fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Beyea said, the unexpected finding should prompt a more thorough evaluation of the island for potentially hotter spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that there is a level above standards is a clear mandate for further study and assessment of the extent of contamination and its origin,” Beyea wrote in an email, adding that more systematic testing is particularly important given that public play areas are planned nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building a playfield is not an appropriate plan at this time,” he wrote, “given the tendency for little children to put things in their mouths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94056\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir1a.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94056\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir1a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Reporter Katharine Mieszkowski carries buckets containing carefully separated soil samples from Treasure Island, which later were tested at two independent certified radiation labs.(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter Katharine Mieszkowski carries buckets containing carefully separated soil samples from Treasure Island, which later were tested at two independent certified radiation labs.\u003cbr>(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CIR shared the test results with the Navy, City of San Francisco, and state Departments of Public Health and Toxic Substances Control, requesting interviews with experts involved in the Treasure Island cleanup. All four responded with statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy said the test results did not warrant action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Such limited data taken out of context doesn’t provide much value in determining site conditions or making programmatic decisions,” wrote Keith Forman, the Navy’s Treasure Island cleanup coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Tymoff, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s Treasure Island development director, said CIR’s findings provide no reason for the city to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has no basis to comment on the validity or accuracy of the tests,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Health said it “does not comment on research conducted by others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, which oversees the Navy cleanup, said in a statement that it had to review the findings and would work with the Public Health Department “to determine what it means and where we go from here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butner and other state radiation specialists have for years complained in emails, reports and memos that the Navy has been reluctant to test for fission byproducts such as cesium-137 – despite a Cold War history suggesting the possibility of such contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the Navy has focused on radium-226, used for glow-in-the-dark ship deck markers and gauges commonly discarded at military bases during the mid-20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The distinction is significant: If Treasure Island were contaminated only with radium, that would be consistent with the former base’s public face as a way station and barracks for sailors on their way to the Pacific. Potential contamination by fission byproducts such as cesium-137, however, points to possible aftereffects of Treasure Island’s more guarded history: host to radioactive ships from Bikini Atoll atomic tests and a major education center training personnel for nuclear war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butner said the Navy’s didn’t look for all the waste that might have been left behind during the base’s Cold War years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of going out and surveying the ground for everything, they said, ‘OK, this is what we’re looking for, and we’re not looking for cesium, for thorium,” he said. “The federal government’s motivation is to keep moving forward and not ask many questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cold War Legacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CIR-commissioned findings bolster criticisms, contained in hundreds of pages of internal emails and memos from specialists at the state Public Health Department, that accuse the Navy of failing to adequately inspect Treasure Island for radioactive waste and of perhaps minimizing its Cold War legacy to more swiftly sell off the former base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94057\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/USS_Pandemonium_Photo.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94057\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/USS_Pandemonium_Photo-150x150.png\" alt=\"Until the early 1990s, the U.S. Navy operated atomic warfare training academies on Treasure Island. Some radioactive materials were stored in and around a mocked-up nuclear war training ship, the USS Pandemonium.(U.S. Navy photo)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Until the early 1990s, the U.S. Navy operated atomic warfare training academies on Treasure Island. Some radioactive materials were stored in and around a mocked-up nuclear war training ship, the USS Pandemonium.\u003cbr>(U.S. Navy photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Navy repeatedly has rebuffed health officials’ demands that Treasure Island be thoroughly vetted for radioactive contamination – a multimillion-dollar job – before it is made available for a planned high-rise development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy stands to receive more than $100 million from San Francisco for the base, provided the military performs a satisfactory cleanup of chemical and radioactive waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until the early 1990s, the Navy operated atomic warfare training academies on Treasure Island, using instruction materials and devices that included radioactive plutonium, cesium, tritium, cadmium, strontium, krypton and cobalt. These supplies were stored at various locations around the former base, including supply depots, classrooms and vaults, and in and around a mocked-up atomic warfare training ship – the USS Pandemonium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR’s samples were taken from under a palm tree 50 feet from a classroom building where cesium-137 was kept, according to military archives. A 1974 radiation safety audit identified cesium samples used and stored there with radioactivity several times the amount necessary to injure or kill someone who mishandled them. In 1993, shipping manifests from the same building showed even greater amounts of cesium-137 taken away from the same site that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minute amounts of cesium-137 can contaminate broad areas. When a Spanish steel mill in 1998 accidentally incinerated an amount less than that stored in the Treasure Island classroom building, the smoke plume deposited detectable radioactive material hundreds of miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concentrations found in the CIR-commissioned tests represented mere trillionths of the quantities once stored nearby. It’s exposure to low-level radioactive contamination, however, that researchers have linked to cancer risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classroom materials aren’t the only potential source of the Treasure Island cesium-137 contamination, either. Treasure Island ran a salvage and repair operation during the Cold War years when the West Coast was crowded with ships crippled and made radioactive from atomic tests, according to documents in military archives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The base was opened for civilian use in 1996, including the leasing of former military housing to 2,000 civilians. Then in 2011, San Francisco approved plans for a 20,000-resident redevelopment project, estimated to cost $1.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, the city’s mayor, traveled to China last week to try to consummate a deal for China to loan $1.7 billion to Lennar Corp. for development at Treasure Island and the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/04/11/chinese-deals-for-hunters-point-ti-collapse/\">News reports Thursday\u003c/a> said the deal fell through after the Chinese government insisted on greater control over the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Hunters Point, the Navy long denied the presence of significant radioactive contamination. But in 2001, journalist Lisa Davis of SF Weekly reported that radioactive material had been mishandled during 1940s and 1950s decontamination operations and during experiments at the former base’s Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. Congressional leaders eventually pressed for a full cleanup, delaying development plans there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Testing the soil\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics maintain that Treasure Island’s radioactive cleanup would have been completed long ago had the Navy fully acknowledged potential contamination when testing began in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94059\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir3a.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94059\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir3a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Reporter Matt Smith extracts soil near what was once the radiation exposure room at Treasure Island's former RADIAC Instrument Maintenance School, closed by the U.S. Navy in 1993.(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter Matt Smith extracts soil near what was once the radiation exposure room at Treasure Island’s former RADIAC Instrument Maintenance School, closed by the U.S. Navy in 1993.\u003cbr>(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As recently as March, state public health workers were unearthing new radiological contamination on Treasure Island. A crew spent about 5½ days checking for radioactivity in publically accessible areas, backyards and front yards in a section of the island where residents live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found five locations with elevated radiation levels, according to Gonzalo Perez, chief of the department’s radiologic health branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the buildings on the parcel surveyed by CIR was identified in a 2012 Navy historical study as potentially contaminated with cesium. But the Navy argued in internal reports to state regulators that there was no cause for concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy told state regulators in a June memo that “not one soil sample collected from Treasure Island” had worrisome concentrations of cesium-137.\u003cbr>\nCIR’s new findings, based on surveys with sensitive radiation detection equipment followed up with soil sample tests at two radiation laboratories, throw into question those assertions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soil tests by Eberline Services showed cesium-137 contamination of 0.180 picocuries per gram. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682943-new-world-testing-april4-report-a-ti-cs-137-4-3-13.html\">Tests of the same samples by New World Environmental\u003c/a> showed higher levels: up to 0.315 picocuries per gram. A picocurie, or one-trillionth of a curie, is a standard measure of the intensity of radioactivity in a sample of material. The differences between the two labs’ results are within the statistical uncertainty inherent in testing low-level radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last April, the Navy reported that it had conducted 200 soil tests and that the greatest concentration of cesium-137 it had found on Treasure Island was 0.104 picocuries per gram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of the CIR-commissioned lab results also exceeded the Navy’s threshold for releasing land for development at Treasure Island: 0.113 picocuries per gram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy first established that threshold while cleaning up its property at Hunters Point. That level is at the low end of average global fallout contamination, meaning that Hunters Point, cleaned up to those established levels, actually is less radioactive than much of the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site of the cesium-137 contamination found by CIR is now a grassy lot frequently traversed by teenagers. Development plans call for construction of an apartment complex called Eastside Commons, wetlands, ballfields, tennis courts and grassy play areas on the surrounding land. Five years ago, the Navy and state regulators declared the classroom buildings there to be noncontaminated, clearing them for future development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns about the Navy’s work detecting and cleaning up radioactive waste on the island have been festering since 2006. A Navy historical analysis that year suggested there was little to indicate the former base contained significant radioactive waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year, private contractors hired by the Navy to survey the island found significant radioactive contamination in areas where it shouldn’t have been. One worker received such a high dose of radiation that he was removed from the job. That worker, Robert McLean, was not surprised by CIR’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until you find it, they don’t admit that it is there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting is the country’s largest investigative reporting team. For more, visit www.cironline.org. The reporters can be reached at msmith@cironline.org and kmieszkowski@cironline.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concentrations discovered by \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\">CIR\u003c/a> do not necessarily confirm a health hazard, according to Jan Beyea, a prominent nuclear physicist specializing in the health effects of low-level radiation. They are no greater than common contamination worldwide from 20th-century nuclear fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Beyea said, the unexpected finding should prompt a more thorough evaluation of the island for potentially hotter spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that there is a level above standards is a clear mandate for further study and assessment of the extent of contamination and its origin,” Beyea wrote in an email, adding that more systematic testing is particularly important given that public play areas are planned nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building a playfield is not an appropriate plan at this time,” he wrote, “given the tendency for little children to put things in their mouths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94056\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir1a.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94056\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir1a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Reporter Katharine Mieszkowski carries buckets containing carefully separated soil samples from Treasure Island, which later were tested at two independent certified radiation labs.(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter Katharine Mieszkowski carries buckets containing carefully separated soil samples from Treasure Island, which later were tested at two independent certified radiation labs.\u003cbr>(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CIR shared the test results with the Navy, City of San Francisco, and state Departments of Public Health and Toxic Substances Control, requesting interviews with experts involved in the Treasure Island cleanup. All four responded with statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy said the test results did not warrant action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Such limited data taken out of context doesn’t provide much value in determining site conditions or making programmatic decisions,” wrote Keith Forman, the Navy’s Treasure Island cleanup coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Tymoff, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s Treasure Island development director, said CIR’s findings provide no reason for the city to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has no basis to comment on the validity or accuracy of the tests,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Health said it “does not comment on research conducted by others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, which oversees the Navy cleanup, said in a statement that it had to review the findings and would work with the Public Health Department “to determine what it means and where we go from here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butner and other state radiation specialists have for years complained in emails, reports and memos that the Navy has been reluctant to test for fission byproducts such as cesium-137 – despite a Cold War history suggesting the possibility of such contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the Navy has focused on radium-226, used for glow-in-the-dark ship deck markers and gauges commonly discarded at military bases during the mid-20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The distinction is significant: If Treasure Island were contaminated only with radium, that would be consistent with the former base’s public face as a way station and barracks for sailors on their way to the Pacific. Potential contamination by fission byproducts such as cesium-137, however, points to possible aftereffects of Treasure Island’s more guarded history: host to radioactive ships from Bikini Atoll atomic tests and a major education center training personnel for nuclear war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butner said the Navy’s didn’t look for all the waste that might have been left behind during the base’s Cold War years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of going out and surveying the ground for everything, they said, ‘OK, this is what we’re looking for, and we’re not looking for cesium, for thorium,” he said. “The federal government’s motivation is to keep moving forward and not ask many questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cold War Legacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CIR-commissioned findings bolster criticisms, contained in hundreds of pages of internal emails and memos from specialists at the state Public Health Department, that accuse the Navy of failing to adequately inspect Treasure Island for radioactive waste and of perhaps minimizing its Cold War legacy to more swiftly sell off the former base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94057\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/USS_Pandemonium_Photo.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94057\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/USS_Pandemonium_Photo-150x150.png\" alt=\"Until the early 1990s, the U.S. Navy operated atomic warfare training academies on Treasure Island. 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When a Spanish steel mill in 1998 accidentally incinerated an amount less than that stored in the Treasure Island classroom building, the smoke plume deposited detectable radioactive material hundreds of miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concentrations found in the CIR-commissioned tests represented mere trillionths of the quantities once stored nearby. It’s exposure to low-level radioactive contamination, however, that researchers have linked to cancer risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classroom materials aren’t the only potential source of the Treasure Island cesium-137 contamination, either. Treasure Island ran a salvage and repair operation during the Cold War years when the West Coast was crowded with ships crippled and made radioactive from atomic tests, according to documents in military archives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The base was opened for civilian use in 1996, including the leasing of former military housing to 2,000 civilians. Then in 2011, San Francisco approved plans for a 20,000-resident redevelopment project, estimated to cost $1.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, the city’s mayor, traveled to China last week to try to consummate a deal for China to loan $1.7 billion to Lennar Corp. for development at Treasure Island and the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/04/11/chinese-deals-for-hunters-point-ti-collapse/\">News reports Thursday\u003c/a> said the deal fell through after the Chinese government insisted on greater control over the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Hunters Point, the Navy long denied the presence of significant radioactive contamination. But in 2001, journalist Lisa Davis of SF Weekly reported that radioactive material had been mishandled during 1940s and 1950s decontamination operations and during experiments at the former base’s Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. Congressional leaders eventually pressed for a full cleanup, delaying development plans there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Testing the soil\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics maintain that Treasure Island’s radioactive cleanup would have been completed long ago had the Navy fully acknowledged potential contamination when testing began in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94059\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir3a.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94059\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir3a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Reporter Matt Smith extracts soil near what was once the radiation exposure room at Treasure Island's former RADIAC Instrument Maintenance School, closed by the U.S. Navy in 1993.(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter Matt Smith extracts soil near what was once the radiation exposure room at Treasure Island’s former RADIAC Instrument Maintenance School, closed by the U.S. Navy in 1993.\u003cbr>(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As recently as March, state public health workers were unearthing new radiological contamination on Treasure Island. A crew spent about 5½ days checking for radioactivity in publically accessible areas, backyards and front yards in a section of the island where residents live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found five locations with elevated radiation levels, according to Gonzalo Perez, chief of the department’s radiologic health branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the buildings on the parcel surveyed by CIR was identified in a 2012 Navy historical study as potentially contaminated with cesium. 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