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Associated Press ing, and warnings about Tel. 527 4000
BOSTON (AP) — Massachu- the radioactive materials San Nicolas
setts public health officials are posted throughout the
are looking into allegations site. State officials visited IMSAN 24 Hours
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nology laboratory may and the university is coop- PHARMACY ON DUTY
have been exposed to ra- erating with the investiga- In this April 3, 2017 file photo, students walk past the "Great Oranjestad:
dioactive materials. tion, Sharon added. Dome" atop Building 10 on the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- Eagle Tel. 587 9011
The state Department of The university currently nology campus in Cambridge, Mass. San Nicolas:
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Public Health said in a let- holds a state radioactive Associated Press Women in Difficulties
ter earlier this month that it materials license, and the free-release criteria," the "The university has lots of OTHER
has opened an investiga- three prior state inspections university's Environment, money. They can easily Dental Clinic 587 9850
tion into "radiation safety at the lab resulted in no vi- Health and Safety office get rid of this. It's like leav- Blood Bank Aruba 587 0002
and compliance" at Mas- olations, said public health said in the annual report to ing trash bags around the Urgent Care 586 0448
sachusetts Institute of Tech- department spokeswoman MIT's president. But Sharon house."q Walk-In Doctor’s Clinic
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Control Program, said in sity's Cambridge campus, He said the language Sta. Cruz 527 2900
the Oct. 17 letter that the the Bates lab was built in found in prior university re- San Nicolas 584 5000
agency considers the con- the late 1960s with support ports was "imprecise" and Police Tipline 11141
cerns "very serious" and from the U.S. Department that the university only in- Ambulancia 911
plans to review records, of Energy. tended to "reconfigure" the Fire Dept. 115
conduct interviews and It houses a linear accelera- facility for other uses. Red Cross 582 2219
complete on-site inspec- tor , which is used to gen- "The linear accelerator re- TAXI SERVICES
tions. The letter was provid- erate beams of electrons mains on site and could Taxi Tas 587 5900
ed to The Associated Press for scientific experiments, potentially be made func- Prof. Taxi 588 0035
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Babak Babakinejad, a nuclear and particle phys- appropriate funding be- Taxi Serv. Aruba 583 3232
critic of the university's ics. MIT took full ownership come available," Sharon A1 Taxi Serv. 280 2828
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which is run out of Bates gan the process of decon- Babakinejad responded TRAVEL INFO
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this month amid investiga- missioning the accelerator, cerned the accelerator American Airlines 582 2700
tions by MIT and the state according to a university isn't sufficiently secure. He Avianca 588 0059
for possible academic and report at the time. said visitors, such as those Jet Blue 588 2244
environmental violations. "As part of this effort, the who visited the OpenAg Surinam 582 7896
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exposure of employees ing procedure to separate adequately aware of the CRUISES
to the radioactive con- those materials requiring risks. "There's no need to
taminated equipment that disposal as radioactive keep this stuff," he said of
are still stored at the Bates waste from those meeting the radioactive materials.
Lab, many years after the
shutdown of the accelera-
tor," Babakinejad wrote in November 4
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