[CPEO-MEF] Rocketdyne (Santa Susana Field Laboratory, CA) meltdown report

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report Links Cancers to Santa Susana Lab Meltdown

Associated Press
Los Angeles Times
October 5, 2006

A 1959 nuclear reactor meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in 
eastern Ventura County may have caused hundreds of cancers in the 
surrounding community while chemicals from the site threaten to 
contaminate local ground and water, according to a report released today.

The report by an independent advisory panel estimated it was likely 
radiation released during the meltdown caused about 260 cancers within a 
60-square-mile area around the reactor. There was a slim chance the 
numbers could be as high as 1,800, according to the report, which relied 
on technical modeling rather than hard data.

The panel said the federal government and the lab's former owner, 
Rocketdyne, have refused to release many key details of the incident.

"They won't even release the information as to which way the wind blew 
during the meltdown," said Dan Hirsch, co-chair of the Santa Susana 
Field Laboratory Advisory Panel, which conducted the study.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-100506meltdown,0,7254894.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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