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Nuclear energy backers say it’s vital for the fight against global warming. Don’t be so sure (LA Times)
“The 1959 explosion of a sodium-cooled test reactor at the government’s secretive Santa Susana Field Laboratory outside Simi Valley remains the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, venting an immense...
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Are radioactive wildfires next on California’s apocalyptic climate-change guest list? (SF Chronicle)
“In 1959, there was a partial nuclear reactor meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura County. The release, which was swept under the rug for decades, may have...
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Fighting to expose the lies (Simi Valley Acorn)
Melissa Bumstead writes in the Simi Valley Acorn, “In regards to the article “Field lab doc highlights lack of trust,” I’d like to clarify what happened at the NASA meeting...
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Watchdog’s report raises concerns on plutonium at Los Alamos (Santa Fe New Mexican)
““They’ve identified another safety hazard at Los Alamos … and they’re estimating doses that are astronomical,” said Dan Hirsch, retired director of environment and nuclear policy programs at the University...
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Radioactive contamination is creeping into drinking water around the U.S. (Ensia)
“When Jeni Knack moved to Simi Valley, California, in 2018, she had no idea that her family’s new home was within 5 miles of a former nuclear and rocket testing...
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Harper’s Magazine Reports on the Risky Resurgence of Nuclear Power
Click here to read the article.
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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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CBG Releases 2021 Newsletter
CBG has released its 2021 annual Newsletter as well as a year end letter by CBG President Dan Hirsch.
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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...
