I don't think Peter 1 has been off the air long enough to warrant a million dollar attempt.
Do you have better information I missed? The last Peter I of any size was last activated on February 2006 and required a helicopter. I think that's long enough ago to rate a major attempt -- with an understanding some of these might fail.
But I would be happy to hear of something more recent and helicopter free.
Johnston will never come back on due to the contamination and the rabid environmentalists.
I don't get how the "rabid environmentalists" figure into this one. I just read about it lately because of these threads. The place is polluted with
plutonium.
The short answer is: You don't want to be exposed to this stuff. At all. There is a lot of uncertainty of what it can do to you. Some of the older information I read was perhaps excessively scary, but this source:
https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00818013.pdf. . .is scary enough.
It suggests a killing dose that is fairly low. It also suggests that an unknown but possibly much lower dose will give you things like lung cancer. The trick is, even small exposure might concentrate in the more vital areas and give you cancer. And, it is almost impossible to get out of the body once absorbed. Just nasty stuff.
This text compares it to radium, something we once naively allowed all over the place, but got rid of because of its toxicity. You don't want to be around much radium, either.
Now, if you are worried about immediate death, the doses are somewhat higher. But me, I don't need nasty cancer from this kind of crap. Neither does anyone else.
If the environmental pooh bahs don't want us going, I would be included to take their advice.
And, that's before we consider that Agent Orange contaminates the place as well.
It's basically been the military's toxic waste dump for decades.