NASA has allowed annual deer hunts at Plum Brook Station. Does the Decommissioning Project pose any threat to hunters?
No. All 27 acres of the Reactor Facility remain fenced off and the area is regularly patrolled by Plum Brook Station security. Neither animals nor humans can get inside the facility and NASA has taken a number of steps to prevent the release of radiation from the facility. There is one other area onsite where we have small amounts of radiation in the streambed and we have posted this area as not accessible. Given the findings of trace levels of two isotopes in Plum Brook in 2005, NASA took samples of deer tissue and bones during the annual, managed deer hunt at Plum Brook Station, to ensure that there was no uptake by deer from residual radiation. These results show that area deer have not been affected.
