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Environmentalists Fault Sending ‘Very Low Level’ Nuclear Waste to Landfills
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Critics alarmed by US nuclear agency’s bid to relax rules on radioactive waste
Read the article here. “This would be the most massive deregulation of radioactive waste in American history,” said Dan Hirsch, president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a nuclear industry watchdog non-profit, about a proposal that would permit “very…
Advocates raise questions about proposal to allow some nuclear waste to be disposed in landfills
Read the article here. “What they’re trying to do is prop up a failing industry so that the cost of decommissioning these [nuclear] reactors is reduced so you don’t have to send it to a place that is expensive because…
CBG’s Dan Hirsch Receives Earth Day Award From Ventura County
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NRC Proposes Allowing Nuclear Waste at Dumps, Recycling Sites
The NRC is proposing a new way for the nuclear industry to dispose of its waste. Read the article here.
George Rembaum, 94, co-founder of Rocketdyne Cleanup Coalition, Dies; Long Time Fighter for Cleanup of Santa Susana Field Laboratory
George Rembaum, on left, demonstrating at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory against the shipment of radioactive waste from SSFL to Buttonwillow, a site in a low-income farmworker community not licensed for such waste. George Rembaum, who…
Revisions to Hunters Point Radiation Testing Report Draw Fire
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Agencies to Leave Hunters Point so Contaminated it would be Unsafe to Garden
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/strong-produce-garden-rules-eyed-for-hunters-point-shipyard/2221852/?_osource=db_npd_nbc_kntv_twt_shr
Panel’s Defense of Hunters Pt. Radiation Measurements Slammed
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/experts-back-hunters-point-testing-process/2217232/