78 @ The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions cerning the nuclear testing program, and by the knowledge that notall tests that release radioactive material to the atmosphere (whatever the amount or circumstances) are announced. This has led to allegations by critics of the testing program that: Table 4-3—Citizen Alert Water Sampling Program Location Type of Sampie Springdale Ranch Barney Hot Springs 3 mi. south of Fiourspar Canyon Lathrop Wells Point of Rock Spring, Ash Meadows Weil (hose) Stream Amargosa River Spigot at gas station Pond Shoshone, CA Stream Moore's Station Six Mile Creek Tybo and Route 6 (DOE facility) Hot Creek and Route 6 Pond Stream Well (tap) Stream Devils Hole, Ash Meadows Amargosa Junction Goldfield Blue Jay ... the Energy Department is continuing its misinformation campaign by refusing to disclose the size of most underground tests, by hushing up or downplaying problems that occur and by not an- Pool Weil (hose) Well (spigot at gas station) nouncing most tests in advance, thereby leaving people downwind unprepared in the event of an accidental release of radioactive matenals. ” Well (hose) Such concern could be greatly mingated if a policy were adopted such that all tests were announced, or at least that all tests that released any radioactive material to the atmosphere (» hatever the SOURCE. Citizen Alert, 1988 underground nuclear testing program, this mistrust is exacerbated by the reluctance on the part of the Department of Energy to disclose information con- amountor circumstances) were announced. Figure 4-14—Locations of Families in the Offsite Human Surveillance Program Salt Lake Nevada e Salt Lake City Ely @ Austin Round Mt. ooo % ° Lund Currant Blue Jay o Tonopah @, Goldfield Utah Q Pyramid Lake o Blue Eagle Ranch Eagie Valley © Adaven CedarCity e Elgin Nevada 03fachel ° © Nyala Test Beatty Site &|] Lathrop Wells , Pahrump 8 Alamo Bunkerville Indian Springs © @ St. George Overton Arizona Shoshone ® © Offsite Family e@ Community Monitoring Sta. Family About 40 families from around the test site are broughtin to EPA twice a year for whole-body analysis SOURCE: Modified from Environmental Protection Agency. '7John Hanrahan, *‘Testing Underground,’’ Common Cause, vol. 15, No. 1, January/February 1989.