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NASA razes rocket engine test stands (Thousand Oaks Acorn)
“At the May 13 meeting, Daniel Hirsch, longtime nuclear policy watchdog and president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, criticized the plan. Hirsch and his UC Santa Cruz students...
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NRC Chairman Commits Publicly to Reconsider Seismic Risks During Diablo Canyon Relicensing
“On Wednesday, the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission pledged to review the seismic risks for California’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant as the NRC moves ahead with Pacific...
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San Francisco Civil Grand Jury Releases Report on HPNS and Climate Change
Read the report, Buried Problems and a Buried Process: The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in a Time of Climate Change, here.
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Rare Pediatric Cancers Persist 63 Years After Nuclear Accident (WebMD)
Read the full WebMD News Brief on the Santa Susana Field Lab here.
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Can the California Dept. of Toxic Substances Control be trusted to clean up vulnerable communities? (Sacramento News & Review)
“More than a dozen former DTSC officials, key environmental figures and impacted community members outlined to Capital & Main what they see as serious ongoing issues within the department unaddressed...
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Water quality board delays decision on renewal of field lab discharge permit (Thousand Oaks Acorn)
“The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board has postponed until further notice a decision on the renewal of a stormwater discharge permit for the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. …...
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National Academy Radiation Panel Conflicts of Interest
Hirsch presentation before the NASEM panel on Jan. 25, 2022
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Comments by CBG et al. on Stormwater Pollution Permit Proposed by Boeing and LA Water Board
The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board has released a tentative National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the Boeing Company’s stormwater runoff from the Santa Susana Field Lab....
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County probes whether dust drifted from contaminated field lab site because of detonations (VC Star)
“The Ventura County Air Pollution Control District is investigating whether dust drifted off the contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory site during the recent demolition of two buildings by the U.S....
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Dan Hirsch Presents to National Academies on Low-Dose Radiation
On October 27, 2021, Dan gave a presentation to a committee of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the history of low-dose radiation standards and Department of...
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Olney: California breaks promise to clean up radioactive pollution from nuclear meltdown (KCRW)
Warren Olney, who first broke the Santa Susana Field Lab story on KNBC-4 in 1979, has just put out an episode of To The Point, his podcast on KCRW, about...
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Guest column: Film brings long-awaited national spotlight on Santa Susana Field Lab (VC Star)
Dr. Robert Dodge has published a guest column in the VC Star about In the Dark of the Valley, the great new SSFL documentary premiering now on MSNBC. Read the...
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1959 Santa Susana meltdown still hurts San Fernando Valley community. Why hasn’t it been cleaned? (KCRW)
KCRW’s Greater LA podcast has run an episode on the SSFL. The podcast episode features an interview with cleanup activist Melissa Bumstead, In the Dark of the Valley director Nicholas...
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Letter from SSFL Electeds to CalEPA Secretary Blumenfeld
Today elected officials from around the SSFL send CalEPA Secretary Jared Blumenfeld a letter expressing their concern over failures by the State and DTSC to enforce the cleanup agreements and...
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Valley activists, residents head to Sacramento to demand cleanup of contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab (LA Daily News)
Organizers of the demonstration said the California Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Toxic Substances Control, the regulatory agency overseeing the investigation and cleanup of contaminated soil and groundwater at...