Category: Nuclear Policy
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S.F. Supervisor Calls for Hearing Into Hunters Point Shipyard Cleanup
KQED reports . . . Meanwhile, Hunters Point: removing the redactions in Chicago, a faked cleanup stalls affordable housing, and a chance to get your FOIA questions answered. And a...
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PEER: RADIATION PROBLEMS MULTIPLY FOR SAN FRANCISCO’S HUNTERS POINT
Nearly All U.S. Navy Radiation Samples Were Falsified, Fraudulent or Unreliable For Immediate Release: Monday, April 9, 2018 Contact: Kirsten Stade (240) 247-0296 Washington, DC — Troubles afflicting the nearly 30-year...
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San Onofre Update
On December 2, 1942, the first high level nuclear waste in the world was created. Three quarters of a century later there is still no permanent repository for such waste....
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Radiation Protection Standards Weakened CBG and PEER to File Suit
EARLIER THIS YEAR, DESPITE YEARS OF EFFORTS by Bridge the Gap, EPA issued new Protective Action Guides (PAGs) which dramatically weaken protection of the public from exposure to radiation. The...
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True or False: Three Mile Island: America’s Worst Nuclear Accident? — Expert Weighs In (and the Answer Might Surprise You) (Pt.7)
Read the interesting article here.
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Santa Susana Cleanup in Danger
by CBG President Dan Hirsch SEVENTY YEARS AGO, A facility for testing nuclear reactors and rockets too dangerous to be conducted near populated areas was established on the boundary of...
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EPA Says Higher Radiation Levels Pose ‘No Harmful Health Effect’
Bloomberg News reports on EPA’s plan to raise radiation standards. Click here. In the event of a dirty bomb or a nuclear meltdown, emergency responders can safely tolerate radiation levels...
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Committee to Bridge the Gap’s Comments on DTSC’s Proposed Regulations for Toxicity Criteria for Human Health Risk Assessment
Re: DTSC Reference Number R-2016-8 20 September 2017 CBG Toxicity Criteria Rule Comments (pdf) DTSC Toxicity Criteria Excel Sheet Comparison (pdf) Appropriate toxicity criteria for human health risk assessments are...
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Boeing altered its cleanup plan for toxic Santa Susana land. Here’s why that worries local leaders
Boeing altered its cleanup plan for toxic Santa Susana land. Here’s why that worries local leaders
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The Ethics and Politics of Nuclear Waste are Being Tested in Southern California
Read the Counter Punch report by clicking here.
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California to be Nuclear Free by 2025
In a stunning turn of events, Pacific Gas & Electric, the operator of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant on the Central California coast, announced in 2016 that it was abandoning...
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SANTA SUSANA: The Battle for Cleanup Continues
The battle to ensure a full cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab increased in intensity in 2016 and 2017. The state and federal agencies that had promised cleanup took...
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DOE’s Draft EIS Violates Federal Law, DOE’s Written Agreement with California and Leaves Up to 94% of Contamination at SSFL Not Cleaned Up
On January 6, 2017 the Department of Energy (DOE) released its draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for its proposed cleanup of Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL),...
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Year-Long Investigation into LA’s Nuclear Secrets
All five parts of this ground-breaking investigative series can be watched by clicking here. In 2015, The investigative team from NBC4 Los Angeles, led by producers Joel Grover and Matthew...