f{"id":38185,"date":"2024-12-13T13:29:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T21:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=38185"},"modified":"2024-12-13T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T21:29:49","slug":"destroyed-records-dying-witnesses-consign-san-francisco-radiation-lab-to-obscurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/destroyed-records-dying-witnesses-consign-san-francisco-radiation-lab-to-obscurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroyed Records, Dying Witnesses Consign San Francisco Radiation Lab to Obscurity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">December 12, 2024 (info@sfpublicpress.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"601\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-48.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-48.png 601w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-48-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-48-150x133.png 150w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-48-169x150.png 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sfpublicpress.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=03492337c7bc71ab29fcf0660&amp;id=465c70f93a&amp;e=039c9fd075\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><br><strong>Destroyed Records, Dying Witnesses Consign San Francisco Radiation Lab to Obscurity<\/strong><em>How did a celebrated Navy atomic research center nearly vanish from public consciousness? Many records were classified and others shredded, including documentation of human experimentation.<\/em>After running the world\u2019s first doctoral program in radiation biology, James Newell Stannard spent his retirement researching \u201cRadioactivity and Health: A History.\u201d The exhaustive record of the field\u2019s early days, published in 1988, mentions some of the work done at a U.S. Navy radiation lab headquartered in San Francisco. Some but not all, because the paper trail was incomplete.<br><br>When the Navy closed the lab in 1969, \u201cthey threw out nearly all records, and there is nowhere, at least so far as I can find, one complete set of Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory reports!\u201d Stannard said in a 1979 interview.<br><br>Now most firsthand witnesses are dead, and the memories of the living have faded. With the lab\u2019s former home the anchor of the city\u2019s biggest real estate development project, knowledge of what lies beneath may be permanently hidden from a community desperate to understand the extent of the site\u2019s threat to public health.In\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sfpublicpress.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=03492337c7bc71ab29fcf0660&amp;id=a41e1f92ab&amp;e=039c9fd075\" target=\"_blank\">Part 5<\/a>\u00a0of \u201cExposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point,\u201d\u00a0we trace the obscure nature of the work at the lab to the military\u2019s culture of secrecy, explore why officials shredded millions of pages of paper records and show how an ongoing lack of official interest in acknowledging this history has frustrated local people dealing with the shipyard\u2019s environmental legacy.<br><br>\u2014\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sfpublicpress.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=03492337c7bc71ab29fcf0660&amp;id=e02fb7ae41&amp;e=039c9fd075\" target=\"_blank\">Read Part 5\u00a0of our investigation<\/a>.<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 12, 2024 (info@sfpublicpress.org) Destroyed Records, Dying Witnesses Consign San Francisco Radiation Lab to ObscurityHow did a celebrated Navy atomic research center nearly vanish from public consciousness? Many records were classified and others shredded, including documentation of human experimentation.After running the world\u2019s first doctoral program in radiation biology, James Newell&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/destroyed-records-dying-witnesses-consign-san-francisco-radiation-lab-to-obscurity\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/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":[],"class_list":["post-38185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=38185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}