Search for Toxic Waste at Prison Intensifies
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Military officials are stepping up efforts to locate radioactive materials believed to be buried at the former Castle Air Force Base, now home to a federal prison holding about 1,400 inmates.
The Air Force plans to interview more former airmen and conduct searches with metal detectors and ground-penetrating radar in late October or early November, said Jody Wireman, a toxicologist in the environmental radiation branch of the Air Force Institute for Operational Health in Texas.
Wireman told the Castle Restoration Advisory Board last month that officials believe low-level radioactive materials were buried near the former weapons storage area when the property was a Strategic Air Command training base.
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