Candidates for San Francisco’s District 10 Supervisor position agreed that it\u2019s time to do something about radioactive waste at Hunters Point Shipyard.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the consensus that emerged at a candidates forum last Thursday. The shipyard was previously the site of radioactivity research conducted by the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. It was also where radiation and atomic weapons were decommissioned. A lawsuit filed two years ago alleged that radioactive waste has not been adequately cleaned up by the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n
The nine candidates \u2014 Theo Ellington, J.R. Eppler, Ellsworth M. Jennison, Jr., Mike Trouble Lin, Jamo Muhammad, Jessica Pessecow, Shawn Richard, Dion-Jay “DJ” Brookter, and Deandra Bryant \u2014 agreed that the future of the site was an important issue.<\/p>\n
Richards, Muhammad, and Lin suggested putting pressure on the federal government and the Navy to clean up the site.<\/p>\n
Pessecow recommended bioremediation \u2014 using bacteria to eat radioactive waste \u2014 as well as providing screenings and healthcare to residents in the area.<\/p>\n
Other candidates proposed real-time monitoring of hazardous substances in the area, as well as requiring developers to pause construction on projects in Hunters Point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Candidates for San Francisco’s District 10 Supervisor position agreed that it\u2019s time to do something about radioactive waste…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-422887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}