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May 12, 2023 · From 1985 to 2001, personnel at Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi in Atsugi, Japan may have been exposed to environmental contaminants from off-base waste incinerators. The Shinkampo Incinerator Complex (SIC) was a combustion waste disposal equipped with incinerators that burned up to 90 tons of industrial and medical waste daily.
NAF Atsugi Incinerator. From March 1980 to April 2001, Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan and its surrounding community faced an assault of toxic emissions originating from the nearby Jinkanpo/Shinkampo/Enviro-Tech Incinerator Complex. The neighboring industrial waste facility, situated just 100 meters beyond the base's perimeter, frequently ...
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In the eyes of the Navy, the source of the exposure at NAF Atsugi was a Japanese-owned incinerator off base, which removes them from responsibility. A few Navy environmental and medical folks...
Mar 6, 2023 · Mar 6, 2023. The NAF Atsugi, Japan incinerator exposure is one of VFEA’s first focuses. It is an exposure that has affected many young military families that spent time on base from March 1980 to April 2001, including 3 of our own board members.
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Jun 21, 2019 · Updated: November 20, 2023. About the Waste Incinerator in Atsugi. According to VA, from 1985 to 2001, personnel at Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi in Atsugi, Japan may have been exposed to environmental contaminants from off-base waste incinerators. Shinkampo Incinerator Complex (SIC) was a combustion waste disposal equipped with incinerators ...
Aug 8, 2023 · While the VA had created a webpage acknowledging the Atsugi exposure in 2009, it had stated the same thing for more than a decade: “Currently, there is no definitive scientific evidence to show that living at NAF Atsugi while the incinerator operated caused additional risk for disease.”.
Jun 12, 2022 · A sailor assigned to the Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi Air Operations Department’s Transient Aircraft Line (T-Line) Division, directs a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III following its arrival at Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Japan. Because of an incinerator that operated at the base from the 1980s to 2001, military personnel who served there during that time now are eligible for presumed ...
