Nuclear Policy
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Report: No Data Exists To Support Presumption Of Safety At Shipyard
The SF Chronicle reports: An independent report, one of two released Thursday on the safety of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, said no data exists to...
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READ: California State Lands Commission’s Draft Environmental Impact Report for Decommissioning the San Onofre Nuclear Plant
CBG and other groups lodged their comments with the California State Lands Commission: At the core of environmental review are two key requirements: a thorough analysis of the full range...
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Toxic Relationship: The Fraud at Hunters Point
Click here to read the report by the SF Weekly: Not far from the radioactive soil of Hunters Point, city environmental engineer Amy Brownell sits stoically in a room full of people who...
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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...