I went swimming today a mere few hours after reading this article in the Guam Pacific Daily News:
"Submarine leaks radiation: Navy says risk minimal; Guam tests due Tuesday."
I still get substantially fewer rashes here than I did when I swam in California.
Essentially, a nuclear submarine that is home-docked in Guåhan went to Hawaii for maintenance and was found to leak nuclear material-containing water. The leak could have been undetected for the past five months.
It is possible that the amount of water leaked contains "negligible" amounts of radiation, but I wonder what kinds of formal responsibilities the U.S. military has towards Guåhan's land and people when (and I write when, not if) more of these accidents occur.
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