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Excessive Radiation Found at SSFL
After a three-year study, the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed that the SSFL site suffers from excessive levels of radioactive contamination. CBG’s Dan Hirsch is quoted by the Ventura County Star...
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Federal Report Could Lead To Greater Cancer Risk at Dirty Bomb Sites
Global Security Newswire and the National Journal report: People living near the site of a radiological attack could face greater cancer risks then what the government would normally allow if...
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SAN ONOFRE: CBG Study Shows Safety of Restarting Either Unit 2 or 3 is Questionable
In a report released today, CBG conducted an exhaustive analysis of data from nuclear plants nationwide. After analyzing the data, it became stunningly clear that San Onofre’s Unit 2 reactor...
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NASA Reaffirms Commitment to SSFL Cleanup Agreement, Will Clean Up Contamination to Background
NASA announced that it will fully comply with the Agreement on Consent (AOC) signed in December 2010 to cleanup its portion of SSFL to background levels and set the scope...
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San Onofre nuclear power plant: More dangerous than imagined
There is a new report on the devastating information recently disclosed by the NRC–that approximately 3,400 steam generator tubes have gone bad at San Onofre, a number nearly equal to...
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The Nation: ‘Shut Down San Onofre’: The New Front Line in the Fight Against Nuclear Power
The Nation magazine reports on the efforts to shutter the San Onofre plant. CBG has been working with the community and other nuclear policy organizations to shutter the problem-riddled plant.
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CBS report on San Onofre Plant
CBS 2 ran a story regarding the San Onofre nuclear reactor, with an interview of Dan Hirsch. You may read the story here, and watch the video below.
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EPA Inspector General Criticizes EPA Radiation Monitoring Network
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inspector General confirms CBG Criticisms of EPA Radiation Monitoring Network Large Fraction Broken During Fukushima Crisis. In January 2009, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued...
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Nuclear Power: Ethical and Policy Implications
A lecture presented by CBG’s Dan Hirsch on the ethical and policy implications of nuclear power.
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San Onofre nuclear power plant prohibited from restarting
Report from Friends of the Earth, in consultation with CBG finds that design changes in new steam generators at San Onofre forced the shut down of the plant for several...
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Assemblywoman Brownley: New Data Show Radioactivity Still Lurks in “Cleaned Up” Soil at Santa Susana Field Lab
Assemblywoman Brownley’s office issued a press release which notes that the EPA’s recent release of data showed extensive radioactive contamination remaining at SSFL. Assemblywoman Brownley went on to note, in...
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How Many Wake-Up Calls Does it Take?
Three Mile Island (TMI). Chernobyl. Fukushima. After TMI, nuclear industry advocates told us not to worry, they had brought the accident under control a half-hour before a complete meltdown and...
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CBG’s Dan Hirsch Speaks on Reactor Safety at San Onofre
Hirsch talked about the SONGs safety record, and the dangers presented by the continued operation of the San Onofre nuclear power plant. The San Clemente Times reports: The second of...