Author: CBG
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Watchdog’s report raises concerns on plutonium at Los Alamos (Santa Fe New Mexican)
““They’ve identified another safety hazard at Los Alamos … and they’re estimating doses that are astronomical,” said Dan Hirsch, retired director of environment and nuclear policy programs at the University...
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Radioactive contamination is creeping into drinking water around the U.S. (Ensia)
“When Jeni Knack moved to Simi Valley, California, in 2018, she had no idea that her family’s new home was within 5 miles of a former nuclear and rocket testing...
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Harper’s Magazine Reports on the Risky Resurgence of Nuclear Power
“Dwight Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms for Peace’ program, unveiled in 1953, set the optimistic tone for nuclear power: ‘The United States knows that peaceful power from atomic energy is no dream of...
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County probes whether dust drifted from contaminated field lab site because of detonations (VC Star)
“The Ventura County Air Pollution Control District is investigating whether dust drifted off the contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory site during the recent demolition of two buildings by the U.S....
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CBG Releases 2021 Newsletter
CBG has released its 2021 annual Newsletter as well as a year end letter by CBG President Dan Hirsch.
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Dan Hirsch Presents to National Academies on Low-Dose Radiation
On October 27, 2021, Dan gave a presentation to a committee of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the history of low-dose radiation standards and Department of...
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Olney: California breaks promise to clean up radioactive pollution from nuclear meltdown (KCRW)
Warren Olney, who first broke the Santa Susana Field Lab story on KNBC-4 in 1979, has just put out an episode of To The Point, his podcast on KCRW, about...
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Guest column: Film brings long-awaited national spotlight on Santa Susana Field Lab (VC Star)
Dr. Robert Dodge has published a guest column in the VC Star about In the Dark of the Valley, the great new SSFL documentary premiering now on MSNBC. Read the...
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Woolsey Fire Spread Radioactive Contamination (VC Reporter)
“A peer-reviewed study published in the December 2021 issue of Journal of Environmental Radioactivity (JER) has found that radioactive contaminated particles were spread during the 2018 Woolsey Fire from Santa...
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1959 Santa Susana meltdown still hurts San Fernando Valley community. Why hasn’t it been cleaned? (KCRW)
KCRW’s Greater LA podcast has run an episode on the SSFL. The podcast episode features an interview with cleanup activist Melissa Bumstead, In the Dark of the Valley director Nicholas...
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Environmental groups say safety measures lacking as Santa Susana Field Lab buildings demolished (LA Daily News)
“The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab wrote in the letter that the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, also known as DTSC, endangered...
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Explosion Sends Potentially Radioactive Dust Into Air Above LA (NBC LA)
The U.S. Department of Energy demolished a building using explosives last month at the highly contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), a former nuclear and rocket test site in the...
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Parents of young cancer patients driven to activism after cases get linked to nearby nuclear lab (MSNBC)
In conjunction with the release today of the new SSFL documentary In the Dark of the Valley, Melissa Bumstead was interviewed on MSNBC. Watch her interview here.
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Study: Radioactive elements reached neighborhoods near Santa Susana Field Lab during Woolsey Fire (Daily News)
“Highly contaminated radioactive particles traveled to residential neighborhoods from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory during the 2018 Woolsey Fire, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study called “Radioactive microparticles...
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Study: Fire, wind carried radioactive materials from lab to Thousand Oaks (Thousand Oaks Acorn)
“A new study indicates that radioactive material migrated off an old nuclear energy and rocket engine test site in the hills above Simi Valley during the 2018 Woolsey fire and...