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...such low-level radiation on individuals living and working in buildings in which tailings were used. Of about 5,000 such structures in the Grand Junction area between 1,500 and 2,000 have been found to contain radon gas. This gas is so penetrating that it can seep through foundations and into basements and other closed spaces. Even more ominous is the fact that radon gas breaks down into "radon daughters," highly radioactive substances that physicians believe cause genetic defects and cancer...
...underground water seep out of the radioactive blast area? Not for several thousand years, says Dr. James Carothers, and AEC's scientific adviser on the island. As to Cannikin's effect on wildlife, the body count so far includes two sea otters, two seals, 13 birds of various species and an undetermined number of fish. In addition, one peregrine falcon nest and three eagle nests-all unoccupied-were destroyed when the ground heaved around them...
...Detroit, a Free Press reporter alerted federal agents that the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel was replacing the 10¢ locks on its men's room pay toilets with 25¢ locks. Hotel Manager Patrick Birmingham, flushed with embarrassment after word of his overpriced plumbing began to seep out, ordered the old, noninflationary devices reinstalled...
...nation's defense. While radioactive debris has escaped from 68 of 253 underground nuclear tests held in Nevada, AEC officials contend that no leaks have been recorded for tests of more than 200 kilotons. On the other hand, they admit that water contaminated with radioactive tritium could seep through open rock to the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean any time within three to 1,000 years. Such uncertainty hardly reassured the concerned environmentalists...
What happens now depends upon Lieut. General Claire E. Hutchin Jr., commanding general of the First Army, to which both officers are now assigned (Donaldson was transferred from a sensitive Pentagon post when news of the forthcoming charges began to seep out). If Hutchin decides to proceed, the next step is a formal investigation under Article 32, the approximate Army equivalent of a grand jury hearing. Then, on advice from the Judge Advocate General's attorneys, Hutchin may or may not order a court-martial...