Even close contact with the uranium is no cause for fear, he said. There is no risk to the public or to soldiers, Fort Carson radiation safety boss Ben Hutchinson said. So it is asking the federal nuclear watchdog agency for permission to leave the waste where it may have been for 50 years - in the soil of Colorado and 11 other states. The Army says cleaning up the waste at Fort Carson and other installations is too expensive - the cost is estimated at more than $300 million nationwide and $25 million in Colorado. "The Army's position is that the Army fired the M101 spotting round from the Davy Crockett weapons system at Fort Carson," Army Installation Management Command spokeswoman Cathy Kropp said. And training, the Army's Installation Management Command in Texas surmised, likely left depleted uranium residue - a low-radiation byproduct of uranium enrichment for reactors and weapons. It is known that troops trained with the weapon at Fort Carson. But poor record keeping in the 1960s leaves the issue in doubt. Fort Carson is joined on the roster by installations in Hawaii, Washington state, Georgia, Kentucky, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and California.įort Carson says no depleted uranium was found during post inspections, which included use of radiation detectors. The Army says 12,405 acres may have been contaminated during the Davy Crockett days.
Since discovering the uranium munitions in Hawaii in 2005, the service has done 10 years of detective work to figure out which bases participated in the testing program.
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