Author: CBG
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Can the California Dept. of Toxic Substances Control be trusted to clean up vulnerable communities? (Sacramento News & Review)
“More than a dozen former DTSC officials, key environmental figures and impacted community members outlined to Capital & Main what they see as serious ongoing issues within the department unaddressed...
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Water quality board delays decision on renewal of field lab discharge permit (Thousand Oaks Acorn)
“The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board has postponed until further notice a decision on the renewal of a stormwater discharge permit for the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. …...
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CBG et al. Presentation to LA Water Board Rejecting Weakened SSFL Pollution Permit
On February 10, Dan Hirsch and Melissa Bumstead gave a presentation to the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board on behalf of CBG, Parents Vs. SSFL, Physicians for Social...
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National Academy Radiation Panel Conflicts of Interest
Hirsch presentation before the NASEM panel on Jan. 25, 2022
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Comments by CBG et al. on Stormwater Pollution Permit Proposed by Boeing and LA Water Board
The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board has released a tentative National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the Boeing Company’s stormwater runoff from the Santa Susana Field Lab....
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Nuclear energy backers say it’s vital for the fight against global warming. Don’t be so sure (LA Times)
“The 1959 explosion of a sodium-cooled test reactor at the government’s secretive Santa Susana Field Laboratory outside Simi Valley remains the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, venting an immense...
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Are radioactive wildfires next on California’s apocalyptic climate-change guest list? (SF Chronicle)
“In 1959, there was a partial nuclear reactor meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura County. The release, which was swept under the rug for decades, may have...
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Fighting to expose the lies (Simi Valley Acorn)
Melissa Bumstead writes in the Simi Valley Acorn, “In regards to the article “Field lab doc highlights lack of trust,” I’d like to clarify what happened at the NASA meeting...
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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...