Overview
- The Navy disclosed on June 24 that contractors found roughly 200 radiological items, including uranium samples and dozens of jars, inside a 4,000-square-foot annex called Building 400A.
- Navy officials said the materials were likely placed there by a former subcontractor who lacked authorization and that there are no current public or contractor health and safety issues.
- The Navy plans to evaluate and develop a disposal plan with its contractors while the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prepare separate evaluations.
- Community groups rallied at San Francisco City Hall demanding independent, community-supervised retesting, long-term health monitoring, full cleanups and reparations because they distrust past Navy oversight.
- The discovery deepens questions about the long-running Superfund cleanup and San Francisco’s Candlestick Point–Hunters Point housing plans because past undisclosed detections and climate-driven groundwater rise raise risks of mobilizing buried contamination.