Category: Radioactive Waste
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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...
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Are the EPA’s Emergency Radiation Limits a Cover for Fukushima Fumbles?
Read the report here.
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EPA’s Plan for Radioactive Drinking Water
Eight years ago, in the waning days of the Bush Administration, the EPA tried to issue new standards for radioactivity in drinking water that would have increased permissible concentrations by...
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Critics Question Plans For Nuclear Waste Storage At San Onofre
NBC San Diego reports, here.
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CBG & Other Groups Oppose EPA’s Proposed Huge Increase in Permissible Radioactivity in Drinking Water
Read the group letter by clicking here. On December 5, 2015, OMB received for review from the US EPA proposed changes to its Protective Action Guides (PAGs) for responding to...
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Stand-down order at San Onofre questioned
The plant is closed. but radioactive material remains The San Diego Union Tribune Reports
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CBG Issues Report “50 Years of Power; 500,000 Years of Radioactive Waste”
Comments Submitted to NRC On Draft Nuclear Waste Confidence Rule, click here to download.
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How is Japan Recovering from Fukushima?
CBG’s Dan Hirsch talks with CCTV news regarding the status of Fukushima cleanup efforts.
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Crews rush to clean up contaminated nuclear lab, rocket site outside of Los Angeles by 2017
The Washington Post reports on cleanup efforts at SSFL.
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CBG Releases Report Showing Radioactive Waste Was Sent to Recyclers and Landfills Not Licensed or Designed for Nuclear Waste
The Committee to Bridge the Gap has released a 114 page study by Daniel Hirsch and Ethan Miska disclosing that the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and the Department...
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Nuclear site scrap metal could be headed to recyclers
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. “This involves risk. Radiation causes cancer,” said Daniel Hirsch, president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap. “The U.S. population should not be used as a...
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DOE Proposes Unrestricted Recycling of Radioactive Metals Into Consumer Goods
In a stunning development, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has proposed reversing a twelve year old policy that prohibits the use of recycled radioactive scrap metal materials in...
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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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New Yucca Rule Would Allow Equivalent of 1700 Chest Xrays Over a Lifetime
Would Produce 1 Cancer Per 125 People Exposed 10/12/2008: EPA has now finalized the radiation protection standards for Yucca at 15 millirem/year for the first 10,000 years and 100 millirem/year...