New York Daily News - Home - Radioactive 'hot spots' threat to city, study sez

New York Daily News - Home - Radioactive 'hot spots' threat to city, study sez

You can read the whole article through the link above... I don't know, but to me this news is cause for concern...

"WASHINGTON - A helicopter survey revealed 80 radioactive "hot spots" in New York City, including a Staten Island park with dangerously high levels of radium, a congressional report disclosed yesterday."

Surprise, surprise!

"The locations were discovered during a 2005 helicopter sweep by the Department of Energy, paid for by the city with an $800,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security, to map every radioactive site in the city."

Thank you DHS!

"City officials hope that in the event of a radioactive "dirty bomb" attack, they could quickly identify affected areas by comparing new hot spots with those previously identified on the "radiation map" of the five boroughs."

With our own dumps, why worry of terrorist dirty-bomb attacks? I think we do it pretty well by ourselves. Then, get an inscrupulous developer to build right in the thick of it. When they started urbanizing the area near the Staten Island mall, I thought "Who the hell would want to live near that mound of filth and stinky odorous stenches"(more intense in the Summer)? Well, evidently many because all homes are occupied.

"New York is the only U.S. city to have had an aerial radiation survey conducted. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said yesterday the Bush administration was dropping the ball by not funding similar checks for other cities.
"This is a program that could save lives ... but is instead being shrugged at by the very people who are charged with protecting us," Schumer said."

Another grand surprise, this administration has been one of the most unconcerned with human life, period. OK my scant five cents.
Rob