Officials Search for More Radioactive ‘Hot Spots’
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Following last week’s discovery of a radioactive “hot spot” in Gateway National Park in Staten Island, the city’s Health Department and an outside contractor, Michael Baker Corp., will check for further evidence of radioactivity, officials said yesterday. The spot, discovered on Thursday, is the third radioactive site identified in the park, known as Great Kills. The first was in 2005 when the New York Police Department found a piece of radioactive metal during an aerial scan. Park officials said the most recent discovery measured 7.5 millirems per hour, more than three times the city’s cutoff for acceptable radiation levels. The site, near the model airfield, has been cordoned off, and the park is open.
