A survey of the farallon islands radioactive waste disposal site

This paper reports on a recent survey of the major ocean disposal site for radioactive wastes on the Pacific coast. This site, located near the Farallon Islands (59 km west of San Francisco), was used from 1946 to 1966 for the disposal of containerized, low-level radioactive waste materials. On the order of 47,000 containers were dumped in three areas within the site during its period of activity.