Author: CBG
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Cities must join Irvine’s push for safe storage of San Onofre waste (Times of San Diego)
“Sept. 30, 2025, may mark the day communities in Southern California first took initiative to protect themselves from deadly nuclear waste stranded indefinitely at the decommissioned San Onofre nuclear plant....
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Frustrated residents hold mock ‘funeral’ for SSFL (The Acorn)
“Carrying candles and dressed in black, Simi Valley residents gathered at the Rancho Santa Susana Community Center on Oct. 7 to mourn what they called ‘the death of a full...
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Plans for nuclear waste storage facility scrapped (San Diego Union-Tribune)
“Holtec International confirmed the decision last week, following strong opposition from state lawmakers, including New Mexico’s governor. … “I’m glad that Holtec heard our strenuous objections and decided that fighting...
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Memorial for Dan Hirsch
A memorial will be held for Dan Hirsch on Saturday, November 8, noon to 3:30pm, in Simi Valley. Please join us for an afternoon sharing memories and tributes to his...
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Residents stage a ‘funeral’ claiming Boeing killed cleanup at Santa Susana Field Lab (LA Daily News)
“Community members staged a “funeral” in front of a Boeing building in Van Nuys this week, claiming the company killed the cleanup of the toxic and radioactive site at the...
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Holtec walks away from nuclear waste project in New Mexico (Reuters)
“Private nuclear power company Holtec said this week it is walking away from a project to store nuclear waste in New Mexico, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June...
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Implications of Weakening Radiation Protection Standards – Dan Hirsch Presentation to NRC
On July 16, 2025, Dan Hirsch, President of Committee to Bridge the Gap, gave a presentation to the NRC about the devastating consequences that would result from abandoning the linear...
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Revered nuclear safety advocate Dan Hirsch dies (Camarillo Acorn)
“Hirsch, former director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at UC Santa Cruz devoted more than four decades to holding government agencies and corporations accountable for toxic and...
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Saying goodbye to Dan Hirsch (Melissa Bumstead in the Simi Valley Acorn)
“Dan was a force of nature. He never compromised when it came to protecting our health and our children’s future. Even when it cost him time, energy and peace, he...
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Dan Hirsch Has Passed Away
With deep sadness but also with heartfelt gratitude for a life well lived, the Committee to Bridge the Gap announces the death of its founder, Daniel O. Hirsch, on July 19th 2025 at his home in Ben Lomond, California.
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U.S. Nuclear Energy Plans Could Proliferate Weapons (Scientific American)
“Most Americans probably don’t realize that nuclear reactors originally were invented not for electricity or research but to produce a new substance, plutonium, for nuclear weapons such as the one...
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Legal brief alleges longterm toxicity at Santa Susana field lab (The Acorn)
“A coalition of environmental and public health groups has filed a new legal brief in their ongoing lawsuit against Boeing Co. and the State of California, alleging that a 2022...
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Action needed to address Diablo Canyon safety risks posed by Trump Administration deregulation of NRC (Mothers for Peace, Friends of the Earth letter to Gov. Newsom, State leaders)
Mothers for Peace and Friends of the Earth have sent a letter to California Governor Newsom and other top California government officials, pointing out that President Trump’s recent actions profoundly...
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Jaimi Dowdell Interview About Reuters Report on ATSDR Shielding Polluters
Jaimi Dowdell was recently interviewed on Frank von Hippel’s Science History Podcast, discussing last year’s Reuters report on the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the largely captured federal toxics...
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Trump’s $4 Trillion Plan to Raise Your Energy Bills (Rolling Stone)
“The Trump administration released three executive orders on nuclear energy on the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day weekend — a time often used to dump bad news. And these...