After scrutinizing thousands of pages of records, we conservatively tallied 1,073 people exposed to radiation in medical and technical experiments conducted by the San Francisco-headquartered U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory from 1946 to 1963. You can explore primary materials on DocumentCloud. 1. Radioactive ship decontamination, 1946-1950. Hundreds of shipyard workers tried to remove plutonium and fission byproducts from […]
