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Post by Poor Richard on Aug 8, 2023 17:19:45 GMT -7
Carcinogens found at Montana nuclear missile sites as reports of hundreds of cancers surface The AP via Yahoo reports "The Air Force has detected unsafe levels of a likely carcinogen at underground launch control centers at a Montana nuclear missile base where a striking number of men and women have reported cancer diagnoses.
A new cleanup effort has been ordered.
The discovery “is the first from an extensive sampling of active U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile bases to address specific cancer concerns raised by missile community members,” Air Force Global Strike Command said in a release Monday. In those samples, two launch facilities at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana showed PCB levels higher than the thresholds recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.
PCBs are oily or waxy substances that have been identified as a likely carcinogen by the EPA. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a blood cancer that uses the body’s infection-fighting lymph system to spread."
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Post by Poor Richard on Aug 8, 2023 17:22:28 GMT -7
Air Force taking action to clean Montana nuclear missile sites after finding possible carcinogens Fox News reports "The Air Force Global Strike Command said Monday that it is taking "immediate measures" to clean up and mitigate polychlorinated biphenyls – probable human carcinogens, also known as PCBs – at two Montana locations following initial results from a recent study.
The major command said a team of bioenvironmental experts reported sampling results from Malmstrom Air Force Base in the state last Friday - the first from an extensive sampling of active U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile bases to address specific cancer concerns raised by missile community members.
"Based on the initial results from the survey team, which discovered PCB levels above the cleanup threshold designated by law in two of our facilities, I directed Twentieth Air Force to take immediate measures to begin the cleanup process for the affected facilities and mitigate exposure by our Airmen and Guardians to potentially hazardous conditions," Gen. Thomas Bussiere, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, said in a release. "These measures will stay in place until I am satisfied that we are providing our missile community with a safe and clean work environment."
The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and the Defense Centers for Public Health conducted air and swipe testing for PCBs and other contaminants at Malmstrom AFB from June 22-29. All air samples from the Launch Control Centers and the Launch Control Support Building were non-detectable for PCBs."
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