Annual Reports:
2007 (.pdf, 172kb)
2006 (.pdf, .6mb)
2005 (.pdf, 1.3mb)
2004 Year-end letter (.pdf 49kb)
2003 (.pdf 4.6mb)
2002 year-end letter (.pdf 40kb)
2001 (.pdf 1.1mb)

Reports:
The Proposed Ward Valley Radioactive Waste Facility:
Papers Submitted to the National Academy of Sciences
Download link (.pdf, 3.3mb) October 12, 1994
Comprehensive radiation monitoring data for the US Ecology LLRW site at Beatty, Nevada,
published in the last few days, provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the validity ofoptimistic
transport models that have been used to predict travel times to groundwater in the tens of
millennia. The newly available data show gross alpha readings in groundwater in excess
of action levels in eight different years, gross beta in violation of action levels seven years,
and tritium in excess ofaction levels four years, with significantly elevated tritium (>1,000 pCi/L)
but below action levels an additional four years. The data provide clear evidence that
radioactive materials have migratedfrom the disposal trenches 10 groundwater, 300 feet
beneath the surface, in a few decades. The presence of elevated gross alpha, gross beta,
and Cobalt-60 in the groundwater, in addition to substantial tritium, rule out vapor-phase
migration. These empirical observations of rapid radionuclide migration contrast sharply with
predictions by Prudic (1994) for Beatty and Ward Valley using Chloride Mass Balance calculations.

Contamination at the Beatty, Nevada, Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility (1996)
Download link (.pdf, 15.5mb) [Note: this is a very large file and will take time to download]
In the 1990s, contaminants were discovered outside US Ecology's
radioactive waste facility near Beatty, Nevada, and all the way down to
groundwater. In this report, we evaluate this discovery and its relevance to the now defunct proposal to dispose of radioactive waste at Ward Valley.

Research Projects:
Nuclear Cleanup: The Standards Conflict (2004)
Download Link (.pdf, 1.8mb)
The U.S. Department of Energy has recently violated a longstanding Joint DOE-EPA
Policy which commits DOE to clean up all its nuclear facilities nationwide to the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund (CERCLA) standards. The focal point of this conflict
between DOE and EPA cleanup standards is the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), a 2800-
acre facility on the Los Angeles-Ventura County line in Southern California.

Written Articles:
The NRC's Dirty Little Secret (.html)
For a quarter of a century, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) kept its dirty little secret: Despite the fact that a successful attack on a U.S. nuclear plant could cause thousands of illnesses and deaths in the surrounding area, and despite the clear increase in terrorist threats over that same period, the commission continued to require the country's nuclear power plant operators to maintain only a minimal security capability.

Hearing Testimony:
California Senate Select Committee on Urban Landfills
Download link (.pdf 380kb)
Dan Hirsch Testifies before the Committee regarding radiation waste in landfills
March 7, 2003, Ronald Reagan Building, Los Angeles, CA

Subcommittee on General Oversight and Investigation
United States House of Representatives
Threat of Sabotage and Terrorism to Commercial Nuclear Powerplants
Dan Hirsch, Testimony
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives
March 9, 1988, Washington, D.C.

Subcommittee on the Committee on Government Operations
United States House of Representatives
Download link (.pdf, 1.2mb)
Ocean Dumping of Radioactive Waste off the Pacific Coast Hearing
Dan Hirsch, Testimony October 7, 1980, Washington, D.C.
Please note: the quality of this document is at times poor.