{"id":37922,"date":"2024-11-30T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=37922"},"modified":"2024-11-30T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T20:00:44","slug":"the-human-radiation-experiments-at-hunters-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/30\/the-human-radiation-experiments-at-hunters-point\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunter’s Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Part 1. OVERVIEW<\/a>: How a San Francisco Navy Lab Became a Hub for Human Radiation Experiments + List of Studies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Podcast Episode 1<\/a>: A Community of Color Contends With the Navy\u2019s Toxic Legacy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Podcast Episode 2<\/a>: Why the Navy Conducted Radiation Experiments on Humans<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12\/2   Part 2. THE DECISION-MAKERS: After Atomic Test Blunder, Government Authorized Study of Radiation in Humans<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12\/4   Part 3. THE STUDIES: Human Radiation Studies Included Mock Combat, Skin Tests and a Plan to Inject 49ers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12\/6   Part 4. ETHICS: Cold War Scientists Pushed Ethical Boundaries With Radiation Experiments<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12\/9   Part 5. FADING HISTORIES: Destroyed Records, Dying Witnesses Consign San Francisco Radiation Lab to Obscurity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12\/11   Part 6. PERPETUAL EXPERIMENT: Shuttered Radiation Lab Poses Ongoing Health Risks for Growing Neighborhood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the series:<\/strong> <\/em>The San Francisco Public Press sifted through thousands of pages of obscure records, interviewed experts and tracked down elderly veterans who were subjected to ethically questionable radiation exposure by the U.S. Navy in San Francisco during the Cold War. What we found reveals a troubling history with effects still felt today.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reporting: Chris Roberts<\/strong> and Rebecca Bowe <\/strong>| Editing: Michael Stoll <\/strong>and Liz Enochs <\/strong>| Research Editing: Ambika Kandasamy<\/strong> | Web Design: John Angelico<\/strong> | Copy Editing: Kurt Aguilar, Michele Anderson<\/strong> and Richard Knee<\/strong> | Archival Research and Illustration: Stacey Carter<\/strong> | Audio Editing: Liana Wilcox, Mel Baker<\/strong> and Megan Maurer<\/strong> | Sound Gathering: Justin Benttinen<\/strong> | Photography: Sharon Wickham, Yesica Prado<\/strong> and Guillermo Hernandez <\/strong>| Graphic Design: Reid Brown <\/strong>| Fact Checking: Dani Solakian<\/strong> and Ali Hanks<\/strong> | Proofreading: Lila LaHood, Noah Arroyo, Zhe Wu<\/strong> and Sylvie Sturm<\/strong> | Special thanks to Alastair Gee<\/strong> and Danielle Renwick<\/strong> at The Guardian and Ben Trefny<\/strong> at KALW Public Radio, and to Amy Pyle<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image above:<\/strong> Hundreds of blue-collar shipyard workers were exposed to potentially dangerous amounts of radiation while attempting to \u201cdecontaminate\u201d the USS Gasconade and other vessels hit by a 1946 atomic bomb test in the Pacific and brought to San Francisco for study. Source: National Archives and Records Administration. Color illustration by Reid Brown.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funding for \u201cExposed\u201d comes from\u00a0the\u00a0California Endowment<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, the\u00a0Fund for Environmental Journalism<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, the\u00a0Local Independent Online News Publishers Association<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0members of the\u00a0San Francisco Public Press<\/strong>. Learn more at\u00a0sfpublicpress.org\/donate<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part 1. OVERVIEW: How a San Francisco Navy Lab Became a Hub for Human Radiation Experiments + List of Studies  Podcast Episode 1: A Community of Color Contends With the Navy\u2019s Toxic Legacy  Podcast Episode 2: Why the Navy Conducted Radiation Experiments on Humans 12\/2   Part 2. THE DECISION-MAKERS: After Atomic… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37924,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37922\/revisions\/37924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}