Is there an increased incidence of cancers among Newington residents?
No statistically significant increases in cancers were found in Newington residents. Health statistics were evaluated and presented in the Health Outcome Data Review section of this document. Was any radiation released from the ordnance storage areas? Can I come into contact with it? Pease AFB, being a Strategic Air Command base, had the potential for storing and maintaining nuclear weapons. Operations at the base did not involve any maintenance on unsealed sources of radioactive material. The potential for release and contamination was very unlikely. In 1990, the Air Force conducted a radiological survey of weapons storage areas and did not detect any radioactivity above background levels (Thurlow 1990). Can I get sick from eating game hunted on base? It is unlikely that hunters were at any health risk associated with the consumption of game taken from these areas. Considerable effort has been made at the former Pease AFB to identify and characterize the extent of chemical contaminati
