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The word "release" seemed to suggest deliberate intent, when the fact is that the leakage was unknown until detected in monitoring wells. I changed the word to "leakage", which is more accurate and less misleading.

The word "environment" was far too broad, and seemed to suggest that the tritium either went into the atmosphere or actually escaped the laboratory grounds and affected drinking water; it did neither. I therefore substituted the more-precise, more-accurate, and less-confusing term "groundwater".

(References and documentation will be supplied upon request: bam@tripodics.com )

I also updated the tense ("have angered" to "angered"), since the HFBR was closed nearly a decade ago, and added a note that management changes resulted. (Actually, the site contractor, AUI, had its contract cancelled -- in a move many view as largely political! But I really don't think that can of worms needs re-opening.)

tripodics bam (talk) 05:02, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why nationalistic? Do you even know what a nation is, a race?[edit]

Why nationalistic? Do you even know what a nation is, a race? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.174.114.38 (talk) 13:30, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Earlier controversy[edit]

I was reading this paper which contains this line: "An example of stress-induced pest irruption occurred at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where oaks became vulnerable to aphids when translocation of sugars and amino acids was impaired by continuing gamma irradiation (Goodwell, 1965)."

I remembered hearing about a controversy at Brookhaven but I was actually thinking of the one in the 1990s. I could not find "Goodwell, 1965" and it does not appear in the bibliography, however I found a 1973 paper which appears to be on the same subject.

Is this worth including? I don't have the science background to summarise this other issue or to know whether it is worth including. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lydgate (talk • contribs) 11:38, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Internment Camp[edit]

While camp Upton was indeed an internment camp, it housed the Axis nationals that were on ships in NYC at the start of hostilities. Like most East Coast internment camps, it was primarily housing Germans and Italians. The "Japanese" camps were generally West Coast, for obvious reasons. 74.119.41.6 (talk) 13:23, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]