Category: Publications
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CBG’s Annual News Letter! 2015 Edition
In this edition we discuss the slow moving progress to clean up the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. We also look at other big nuclear stories of 2015, including revelations that...
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SSFL Transportation Options Task Force Issues Report
The full report, “Overview of Alternative Transportation Options for Santa Susana Field Laboratory Cleanup,” may be read by clicking this link.
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CBG Issues Report “50 Years of Power; 500,000 Years of Radioactive Waste”
Comments Submitted to NRC On Draft Nuclear Waste Confidence Rule, click here to download.
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Read CBG’s 2013 Annual Report
CBG recently released its 2013 annual report. You may access it here, along with our prior annual reports.
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CBG Releases 2012 Annual Report
Below you will find a link to CBG’s 2012 annual report as well as a link to our annual report archive. The annual report discusses CBG’s work for the year....
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How Many Wake-Up Calls Does it Take?
Three Mile Island (TMI). Chernobyl. Fukushima. After TMI, nuclear industry advocates told us not to worry, they had brought the accident under control a half-hour before a complete meltdown and...
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CBG, Enviro Groups Write EPA About Efforts to Relax Radiation Standards and Problems with U.S. Fukushima Radiation Monitoring
CBG along with other environmental groups wrote to eputy Administrator Perciasepe, General Council Fulton, Assistant Administrators McCarthy and Stanislaus, and Acting Assistant Administrator Stoner regarding a series of radiation protection...
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Japan crisis reminds us plutonium, CO2 not the only choices
Sacrament Bee OpEd by S. David Freeman and Dan Hirsch in which Mr. Freeman and CBG’s Dan Hirsch contend that the energy policy debate in America was, sadly, incomplete before...
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Radio Frequency (RF) Radiation from “SmartMeters”
February 11, 2011 — A recent report from the California Council on Science and Technology, requested by state legislators to assess potential risks from RF radiation from “SmartMeters” (new electric...
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CBG, NIRS, Sierra Club Critique “Non-Protective” NRC Radiation Standards
February 10, 2011 — NRC radiation standards allow workers to be exposed to radiation at levels that will cause cancer in a quarter of those exposed, according to the federal...
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Historic Cleanup Agreement Reached for Former Nuclear Facility in Southern California
State and federal governments signed agreements today to clean up toxic contamination at SSFL, a former nuclear reactor and rocket testing facility in the hills overlooking the western San Fernando...
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CBG, Sierra Club, NIRS Comments on NRC Proposed Revisions to Radiation Standards
At the heart of what should be the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s prime mission is protection of the public and nuclear workers from exposure to radiation. Unfortunately, current NRC radiation protection...
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CBG Leads Effort to Get Obama EPA to Block Pending Proposals to Relax Radiation Protections
A whole range of proposals left over from the Bush Administration to markedly relax standards for radiation protection remain pending before the new leadership at EPA. In August, CBG led...
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Bush EPA Attempts Relaxation of Radiation Protections As It Leaves Office
02/13/2009 Result:Obama Administration Withdraws Action Before it is Published in Federal Register Victory! Obama Administration pulls back last-minute radiation regulation relaxation by Bush Administration, days before publication in the Federal...
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Bush EPA Plans For Dramatically Relaxing Radiation Protection Before Leaving Office
10/30/2008: Plans to greatly increase permissible public exposures from a wide range of events resulting in release of radioactivity were condemned today by scores of organizations and individuals in a letter...