Search for Toxic Waste at Prison Intensifies
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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