PEEK STREET RADIOACTIVITY - CHRONOLOGY
last update 1/20/01
- 1946 GE/NR/AEC LOCATE NUCLEAR LAB FOR WEAPONS RESEARCH AND
REACTOR EXPERIMENTS IN RESIDENTIAL SCHENECTADY NEIGHBORHOOD
- 1955 GE CLOSEOUT OF PEEK STREET LEAVES RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION
- INDOORS AND OUT
- 1955 PEEK STREET SOLD TO FOOD WHOLESALER WHO DISTRIBUTES FOOD TO
AREA SUPERMARKETS FOR 20 YRS
- 1976 KAPL RADIATION CONTROL CLAIMS THAT RECORDS OF 1955 PEEK
STREET SITE CLOSE - OUT ARE LOST -- NO TRACE OF EVIDENCE OF REAL
CLOSE-OUT EVER BEING PERFORMED HAS SURFACED
- 1976 EXTENSIVE KAPL SEARCH YIELDS NO DOCUMENTED CLOSE-OUT
PLANNING, NO VOLUMES OF RAW DATA THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN COLLECTED, NO
CLOSE-OUT LETTER FROM RAD CON TO KAPL GENERAL MANAGER, NO -
CLOSE-OUT SUMMARY REPORT, NO CLOSE-OUT LETTER FROM KAPL GENERAL
MANAGER TO AEC, AND NO APPROVAL LETTER FROM AEC TO KAPL GENERAL
MANAGER
- 1976 KAPL ISSUES SUPERFICIAL LETTER TRYING TO USE
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PROGRESS REPORT INFORMATION TO
CONSTRUCT CLOSE-OUT STORY
- 1979 KAPL RECOMMENDS THAT DETAILED RADIATION SURVEY OF PEEK
STREET SITE BE PERFORMED BY DOE TEAM -- BASED ON 4 SERIOUS CONCERNS --
LOOSE SURFACE CONTAMINATION -- UNACCESSIBLE AREAS NOT SURVEYED --
CLOSEOUT SURVEY ONLY SAMPLED AREAS -REPORTS OF RADIOACTIVITY IN
SEWER EFFLUENT
- 1981 SCHENECTADY NAVAL REACTORS MANAGER ( BARRY ERICSON)
ORDERS KAPL LETTER RECOMMENDING DOE SURVEY OF PEEK
STREET DESTROYED. GE GENERAL MANAGER ( KAKRETZ)
COMPLIES WITH ( ERICSON'S) ORDERS.
- 1988 INDEPENDENT AGENCY SOIL SAMPLE ON PUBLIC BIKE PATH
ADJACENT TO PEEK STREET SHOWS RADIATION LEVEL 700 %
ABOVE NY STATE LIMIT.
- 1988 LATER INDEPENDENT SOIL SAMPLE ON PUBLIC BIKE PATH
ADJACENT TO PEEK STREET SHOWS MEASURABLE AMOUNTS OF
PLUTONIUM
- 1988 SCHENECTADY CITY COUNCILMAN WRITES GOVERNOR CUOMO
CONCERNING PEEK ST -- DOE FUSRAP TEAM AND
NY STATE PRELIMINARY SURVEY -- 9 DAYS LATER
- 1988 KAPL REVEALS AFTER 35 YEARS TWO INSTANCES
OF ACCIDENTAL PLUTONIUM DISPOSAL IN PEEK STREET
INCINERATOR -- ALSO OTHER ACCIDENT & EXPLOSIONS
- 1989 AGENDA AND MEETING HELD ON FULL FUSRAP SURVEY OF PEEK
STREET SOMETIME IN 1989
- 1989 EX-KAPL EMPLOYEES REPORT TRANSPORTING FROM KAPL AND
BURYING AT PEEK STREET -- UNMARKED 55 GALLON DRUMS OF
MATERIAL -- 1952 TO 1954
- 1989 SCHENECTADY CITY COUNCILMAN REQUESTS DOE TO PERFORM
SURVEY FOR BURIED METAL AT PEEK STREET SITE
- 1989 FUSRAP NOTIFIES LOCAL MEDIA THAT IT IS RETURNING TO PEEK
STREET IN MID AUGUST FOR DETAILED CLOSEOUT SURVEY -- NEW
YORK STATE DOES NOT PARTICIPATE.
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