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The BOMARC Missile Accident Site ("BOMARC Site RW-01") is a fenced-off radiological waste site of the United States Air Force Installation Restoration Program contaminated primarily with "weapons-grade plutonium (WGP), highly-enriched and depleted uranium." The accident occurred at Launcher Shelter 204, which stored the CIM-10 Bomarc missile (one of fifty-four at the base) that caused a Cold War nuclear accident in the Launch Area on the Fort Dix military reservation. ==1960 Fort Dix IM-99 accident== "On 7 June 1960, an explosion in a helium tank (the missile's fuel tanks ) took place in Shelter 204 causing a fire in a liquid-fueled, nuclear-tipped BOMARC missile. The fire burned uninhibited for about 30 minutes. Firefighting activities, using water as a suppressant, were conducted for 15 hours. As a result, materials from the shelter flowed under the front shelter doors, down the asphalt apron and street between the row of shelters, and into the drainage ditch". "Contamination was restricted to an area immediately beneath the weapon and an adjacent elongated area approximately 100 feet long".〔quotation from http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/operation_and_plans/NuclearChemicalBiologicalMatters/21.pdf similar to (1981 DoD statemtent )〕 A nuclear response team from Griffiss Air Force Base found "no trace of dispersed radiation" during spot checks "outside the facility's boundaries" for .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Air Force Magazine )〕 Approximately of WGP was not recovered,〔http://www.hps1.org/aahp/public/AAHP_Special_Sessions/2008_Pittsburgh/Nuclear%20Weapons%20Accidents%20-%20Leasons%20Learned.pdf〕 "A significant fraction of the radiological material contained in the weapon () shipped…to Medina Base, San Antonio TX" and then to Amarillo. According to the Trenton Times, “In June 1987, traces of a radioactive substance used in nuclear warheads (americium-241 related to plutonium) were found about one-half mile from the site." In a 1992 report, the Air Force wrote that the missile launcher from Shelter 204 had been removed from the shelter shortly after the accident, and that no records about the manner of disposal of the missile launcher existed. They found five anomalous areas which could represent the buried launcher.〔 From 1999-2000 the USGS sampled and tested the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer with shallow ground water and sediment for radionuclides. No manmade radionuclide was present in the well-bottom sediments, or unfiltered or filtered water samples. From April 2002 through May 27, 2004,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BOMARC cleanup to begin Radioactive waste at Plumsted site will be taken to Utah - tri.gmnews.com - Tri-Town News )〕 of "contaminated debris and soils were packaged, shipped, and disposed"〔Duratek 2006, cited by Rademacher〕 at Clive, Utah,;〔http://amcadminrec.com/pdfs/mcguire2/AR-1163.pdf〕 the remains of the shelter were removed. In 2005, the contaminated area was estimated as 7 acres and ~ were additionally remediated by 2007.〔http://www.wmsym.org/archives/2009/pdfs/9479.pdf〕 The 1972〔http://amcadminrec.com/pdfs/mcguire2/AR-1405.pdf〕 RW-01 perimeter fence with height topped with barbed wire was extended by 2007 to include a larger area on the south. A 2013 study compared the characteristics of the accident's particle release with the nuclear warhead dispersals of the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash and 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BOMARC Missile Accident Site」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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