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Article: Operation SMOKE STACK: the military's effort to recover lost radioactive materiel.
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- Esprit de Corps
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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In any given year the Canadian Forces participate in several dozen military operations at home and abroad. Some of these operations include hundreds of servicemen and women while others may only have one military member. Some have garnered considerable media attention while others do not. This is a brief look at one of the rather less well known military operations that took place in 1998. It was called SMOKE STACK.
During the early months of 1998, the old heating plant at the Combat training Centre in Gagetown, New Brunswick, was decommissioned. During this process, six gauges containing radioactive materiel specifically Cesium 137, were inadvertently placed ...