The U.S. Navy disclosed Tuesday that it recently uncovered a “basketball-sized” chunk of low-level radioactive dirt buried beneath the front door of a Treasure Island home.
The Navy did not specify when or where exactly it unearthed the contaminated find among the cluster of 650 two-story townhomes spread around the island’s northwest corner called Site 12—or if the home was occupied—but did note that the radioactive dirt was not discovered during a prior scan, according to military branch’s five-paragraph information bulletin.
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