Greenpeace Reports Radiation Leaks
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Radiation from the largest underground test in U.S. nuclear history has reached the surface of an Alaskan island, Greenpeace said, and Energy Department officials want to have a look at the environmental group’s evidence. Department officials met in Washington with Greenpeace researchers and said they would analyze samples gathered last summer on the Aleutian island of Amchitka. At issue is a 1971 test that the Nixon administration said was needed for research on an antiballistic missile system.
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