Category: Nuclear Safety
-
Reports suggest radioactive contamination affects Hunters Point Shipyard in areas never tested by Navy
The SF Examiner reports. Read the article here.
-
Residents rip officials for latest delay of Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup
The VC Star reports: Officials of the state department overseeing the long-planned cleanup of the contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory got an earful Saturday from activists frustrated with the latest...
-
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...
-
Simi Valley residents protest city proposal to use groundwater over contamination concerns
Fox 11 reports: Protesters gathered in Simi Valley Monday evening to speak out against a city proposal to use ground water as another source of drinking water, citing concerns about...
-
Long-planned cleanup of Santa Susana Field Lab delayed again, activists disappointed
Read the VC Star report here. The long-planned cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, site of a 1959 partial nuclear meltdown, has again been delayed, disappointing but not surprising cleanup activists.
-
Simi Valley Community Asks: Fresh water supply or pipe dream?
The Simi Valley Acorn reports: A proposal to tap into Simi Valley’s groundwater basin as a source for drinking water drew angst and anger from residents who claim the water...
-
EPA blasts Navy for plan to retest soil at former SF shipyard
Click here to read the SF Chronicle’s report. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has excoriated the Navy’s plan to retest part of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard for radioactivity...
-
Santa Cruz Waves report: NUCLEAR BAGGAGE at San Onofre
Read the great report here, and watch the the video below.
-
Public Comment on San Onofre Irradiated Nuclear Fuel Issue
Read a public comment by Sarah Brady regarding the storage of San Onofre’s nuclear waste. Click here: Public Comment on San Onofre Irradiated Nuclear Fuel Issue.
-
State will test developed portion of Hunters Point Shipyard, but critics say it won’t be enough
Click here for the report. State regulators wish to conduct superficial tests for radiation at a new Hunters Point housing development in the San Francisco area. CBG’s Dan Hirsch points...
-
Navy Finds More Radiation Data Falsification at Hunters Point
NBC bay area reports.
-
Protestors want SSFL cleaned up
The Simi Valley Acorn reports. See more pictures from the protest here.
-
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...
-
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....
-
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...