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Annual Reports:
2007 (.pdf, 172kb)
2006
(.pdf, .6mb)
2005
(.pdf, 1.3mb)
2004 Year-end letter (.pdf 49kb)
2003 (.pdf 4.6mb)
2002 year-end letter (.pdf 40kb)
2001 (.pdf 1.1mb)

Reports:

Contamination at the Beatty, Nevada, Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility (1996)
Download link (.pdf, 15.5mb) [Note: this is a very large file and will take time to download]
In the 1990s, contaminants were discovered outside US Ecology's
radioactive waste facility near Beatty, Nevada, and all the way down to
groundwater. In this report, we evaluate this discovery and its relevance to the now defunct proposal to dispose of radioactive waste at Ward Valley.

Research Projects:

Nuclear Cleanup: The Standards Conflict (2004)
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(.pdf, 1.8mb)

The U.S. Department of Energy has recently violated a longstanding Joint DOE-EPA
Policy which commits DOE to clean up all its nuclear facilities nationwide to the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund (CERCLA) standards. The focal point of this conflict
between DOE and EPA cleanup standards is the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), a 2800-
acre facility on the Los Angeles-Ventura County line in Southern California.

Written Articles:

The NRC's Dirty Little Secret (.html)
For a quarter of a century, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) kept its dirty little secret: Despite the fact that a successful attack on a U.S. nuclear plant could cause thousands of illnesses and deaths in the surrounding area, and despite the clear increase in terrorist threats over that same period, the commission continued to require the country's nuclear power plant operators to maintain only a minimal security capability.

Hearing Testimony:

California Senate Select Committee on Urban Landfills
Dan Hirsch Testifies
before the Committee regarding radiation waste in landfills (.pdf 380kb)
March 7, 2003, Ronald Reagan Building, Los Angeles, CA

Subcommittee on General Oversight and Investigation
United States House of Representatives
Threat of Sabotage and Terrorism to Commercial Nuclear Powerplants
Dan Hirsch, Testimony
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives
March 9, 1988, Washington, D.C.


Subcommittee on the Committee on Government Operations
United States House of Representatives
Ocean Dumping of Radioactive Waste off the Pacific Coast
Hearing, Dan Hirsch, Testimony
October 7, 1980, Washington, D.C.
Please note: the quality of this document is at times poor.
 

 


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"Bridging the Gap Between Nuclear Dangers and Human Survival"
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