Category: Radiation
CBG’s Comment on the Final Environmental Impact Report for San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) Units 2 and 3 Decommissioning Project
Read CBG’s comment letter to Controller Betty Yee, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis and Finance Director Keely Bosler by clicking here.
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Meltdown (at SSFL) Anything But Minor
Read Dan Hirsch’s letter in the Acorn here.…
Massive Woolsey Fire Began On Contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory
For Immediate Release: November 12, 2018
Contact: Denise Duffield, 310-339-9676 or dduffield@psr-la.org, Melissa Bumstead 818-298-3192 rmelissabumstead@
The tremendously destructive Woolsey Fire has been widely reported as beginning “near” the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL or Rocketdyne), but it appears that the fire began on the Rocketdyne property itself. Cal Fire identifies the fire location as E Street and Alfa Road, a location that is in fact on SSFL. It was recently reported
Navy used obsolete safety standards in shipyard cleanup, researchers say
Read the SF Chronicle report regarding radioactive contamination at Hunter’s Point:
…According to a new report, the Navy, which is supposed to be removing radioactive contamination from the shipyard, is relying on decades-old, obsolete safety standards in order to avoid cleaning up dangerous substances — a strategy that lowers the Navy’s costs, but increases the risk that people living or working on the site will get cancer.