Author: CBG
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CBG’s 2025 Newsletter: Remembering Dan Hirsch
Friends, We’d like to share with you our 2025 annual newsletter.
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Remembrances of Dan Hirsch
Letters and notes submitted by friends. If you have a written remembrance of Dan, please send it to us and we can publish it here.
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President Trump’s radical attack on radiation safety (The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists)
Over the summer, CBG staffers Haakon Williams and Cam Kuta put the finishing touches on an article they’d been writing with Dan, for hopeful publication in the Bulletin of Atomic...
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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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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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CBG Comments on the Proposed Diablo Canyon Wastewater Discharge Permit
The Committee to Bridge the Gap writes to urge the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (hereafter “Water Board”) to reject the NPDES Permit and Section 401 Certification now...
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$1B S.F. shipyard lawsuit may end with just $1,200 payout for each resident (San Francisco Chronicle)
“In regard to the plutonium-239 issue, Navy officials described the concerning sample as an ‘outlier’ at a heated community meeting last week, and said that it measured as a dose...
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CBG Comments on Boeing’s Soil Corrective Measures Study & DTSC’s Statement of Basis
Unless major action is taken now to intervene, Boeing’s Draft Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Limited Corrective Measures Study Report, Surficial Media Operable Unit (CMS) and DTSC’s Draft Statement of...
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CBG Comments on NASA’s Phase 1 Groundwater CMS & DTSC’s Statement of Basis
Beginning decades ago, the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) site was used to develop civilian rockets, plus military missiles for delivering nuclear warheads that could end our world. Grossly irresponsible...
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CBG Response to DTSC’s SSFL MLE Proposal
Click here to read our comments opposing DTSC’s Multiple Lines of Evidence Proposal for the Santa Susana Field Lab
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CBG-NRDC Joint Comments on DOE’s Proposed SSFL SEIS
Click here to read the CBG-NRDC joint comments on the Department of Energy’s proposed Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for SSFL
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CBG Statement on the Navy’s Airborne Plutonium-239 Detection at Hunters Point
Earlier this month, the Navy confirmed a detection of airborne plutonium-239, the same isotope used in nuclear weapons, at its Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. The finding came...
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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...