Scott Yundt-TriValley CARES About Plutonium Dust, Bio Agents

What's worse than allergies in your neighborhood? Try airborne plutonium.

The community of Livermore (east of San Francisco, CA) holds soils and ground water that have been darkly amended by radioactive toxins - tritium, depleted uranium, and even plutonium.

Scott Yundt is staff attorney for Tri-Valley CARES (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment). In this 35-minute interview with co-host Daniel Kerbein, he explains how, even ibeing a Superfund toxic site, does not guarantee the government will give you the information you need to conduct a proper cleanup.

After having won a Freedom of Information Act suit and a court order, the group still receives redacted information, where portions of documents are blacked out.

Scott and Tri-Valley CARES have prevailed with the help of former lab employees, whose interest is in finding out what elements they have been exposed to and obtaining proper treatment for their radiation ailments.

Even in the face of this poisonous legacy, and with the residents and families of Livermore neighboring its little secret compound, the Lawrence Livermore National Lab is still not finished toying with catastrophe. There is also a section devoted to biological weapons there. Germs for anthrax, bird flu, and even the plague live in jars, inside a cluster of portables, apparently waiting to be released among some hapless population.

There, biological agents are aerosolized and tested on animals, to assure that they can spread and cause death among humans.

We're contaminating and poisoning our own citizens as we contemplate bombing and bringing weaponized pestilence upon people in other countries. When did we bounce off the road of being human, and head for the cliff of self-destruction?

We talk about this with Scott Yundt, and about the work Tri-Valley CARES has been doing since 1983.