Fair Questions. Honest Answers.

Here’s the honest answer: we don’t know — and neither does the government. The site has never been tested for radiation. Not once, in over 70 years.

We are not saying there is radiation in your yard. We are saying nobody ever checked. A test answers the question either way. That’s why we’re asking for one.

In 1977, the Department of Energy called the chance of contamination “insignificant” and closed the case. How did they decide? They read old files and made phone calls. They never tested the ground.

In 2025, the EPA said no to new testing — leaning on that same 1977 memo.

Meanwhile, in 2009 the government’s own health experts said the opposite. They found “potential for significant residual contamination” here — leftover radiation. And the government’s compensation program covers workers from this plant who got sick. Same government, two answers. We want the one backed by a real test.

The Claymont Coalition for Environmental Justice. We’re a neighbor-led group — residents, parents, and workers from right here. Residents lead this work; the Coalition supports it with research and a bigger platform.

Our main website is CC4EJ.org.

• Test the whole site for radioactivity — and clean up whatever is found.
• Keep real watch on all the contamination left in place — soil, water, river mud, and air — and share the results with the public.
• Post warnings people can understand, like fish-eating warnings, in more than one language.
• Make polluters pay the full cost — not the public.

These asks went in writing to the EPA and to DNREC, Delaware’s state environmental agency, in May 2026. CC4EJ and State Representative Larry Lambert signed the letter.

Your name goes to the EPA with the petition — that’s what makes it count. You choose whether your name is listed publicly; there’s a checkbox for that.

Your phone or email stays with us and is used only to follow up with you. Any box can stay blank. More on the Act page.

Start here: Help for Workers & Families. Sick workers and their survivors may qualify for $150,000 plus medical costs from a federal program. The free helpline is 1-866-888-3322.

And please share your story with us — worker memories are the record the government never kept.

No. Asking for a test doesn’t make today any more dangerous than yesterday. It makes tomorrow better informed.

If you have health worries, talk with your doctor. And consider sharing your health story with us — those stories are part of the record too.

We deliver every signature and story to the EPA on July 20, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET. Want to take part? Text HONEYWELL to 302-360-1118 or email roby@cc4ej.org and we’ll send you the details. Can’t make it? Your signature still counts.

We keep going. Neighbors have already moved this once: in April 2025, the EPA added the site’s uranium history to its official record because we spoke up.

We’ll keep using every public tool — comments, meetings, our elected officials, and more names like yours. Change here has always come from neighbors who didn’t quit.

• Tell one neighbor. Share this page with them.
• Share your story — life near the site, work at the plant, health worries: our short story form
• Join us. Events and volunteer info: CC4EJ.org or roby@cc4ej.org