Comment by hedora
21 hours ago
Hunter’s Point was where they cleaned the boats that were used for open air nuclear weapons testing.
It’s not a great example. I’d be more convinced if you picked a decommissioned shipyard with more conventional problems, like marinship.
I picked Hunter's Point because I used to live near it. The problems from decommissioning radioactive ships are bad, but they're far from the only pollution that was there. Lots of VOCs, solvents, oils, radiation from other stuff (eg, glow-in-the-dark equipment made with radium), heavy metals, pesticides, PCBs, and what have you.
But sure, there are other shipyards they cleaned up in less than three decades.