The #nuclear meltdown that happened in LA in the late 1950s, but that was not made public:
"Californians must step up pressure to ensure a full cleanup of toxic Santa Susana lab"
#SantaSusana #NuclearPower #LA
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/10/santa-susana-cleanup-nuclear-waste/
Remembering the partial nuclear reactor meltdown in suburban Los Angeles in 1959:
"Activists protest Santa Susana Field Lab on 65th anniversary of meltdown, citing ongoing need for cleanup"
The site, located near Simi Valley, has long been a sticking point for environmental advocates and local residents worried about health risks associated with living so close to hazardous materials.
Sites with #radioactive material more vulnerable as #ClimateChange increases #wildfire, #flood risks
By TAMMY WEBBER
Updated 1:04 AM EDT, May 22, 2024
"As #Texas #wildfires burned toward the nation’s primary #NuclearWeapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas.
"When the fires showed no sign of slowing, #Pantex Plant officials urgently called on local contractors, who arrived within minutes with bulldozers to dig trenches and enlarge fire breaks for the sprawling complex where nuclear weapons are assembled and disassembled and dangerous #plutonium pits — hollow spheres that trigger nuclear warheads and bombs — are stored."
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"Dozens of active and idle laboratories and manufacturing and #military facilities across the nation that use, store or are contaminated with radioactive material are increasingly vulnerable to #ExtremeWeather. Many also perform critical energy and defense research and manufacturing that could be disrupted or crippled by fires, floods and other disasters.
"There’s the 40-square-mile #LosAlamos National Laboratory in #NewMexico, where a 2000 wildfire burned to within a half mile (0.8 kilometers) of a #RadioactiveWaste site. The heavily polluted #SantaSusana Field Laboratory [#SSFL] in Southern #California, where a 2018 wildfire burned 80% of the site, narrowly missing an area #contaminated by a 1959 partial #NuclearMeltdown. And the #plutonium-contaminated #Hanford nuclear site in #Washington, where the U.S. manufactured #AtomicBombs.
"'I think we’re still early in recognizing climate change and ... how to deal with these extreme weather events,' said Paul Walker, program director at the environmental organization Green Cross International and a former staff member of the House Armed Services Committee. 'I think it’s too early to assume that we’ve got all the worst-case scenarios resolved ... (because) what might have been safe 25 years ago probably is no longer safe.”
#WaterIsLife #NoNukes #NoDumping #FutureGenerations #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons #RethinkNotRestart #NuclearWaste
Climate climate change increasingly threatens research laboratories, weapons sites and power plants across the nation that handle or are contaminated with radioactive material or perform critical energy and defense research. The Department of Energy recently required existing sites to assess vulnerability to fires, floods and other disasters. Now the agency division that oversees active sites will decide how to consider future climate risks when issuing permits or licenses. The General Accounting Office is urging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to do the same for nuclear power plants.
Sites with #radioactive material more vulnerable as #ClimateChange increases #wildfire, #flood risks
Climate change increasingly threatens research laboratories, weapons sites and power plants across the nation that handle or are contaminated with #radioactive material or perform critical energy and defense research.
By TAMMY WEBBER
Updated 1:04 AM EDT, May 22, 2024
"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission [#NRC] considers only historical #ClimateData rather than future projections in licensing decisions and oversight of #NuclearPowerPlants, according to a General Accounting Office study in April that recommended the NRC 'fully consider potential #ClimateChange effects.' The GAO found that 60 of 75 U.S. plants were in areas with high flood hazard and 16 were in areas with high wildfire potential."
#NoNukes #NoWar #NuclearWeapon s #NuclearWaste #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise #GlacierMelt #PantexPlant #LosAlamos #CerroGrandeFire #SantaSusana #LawrenceLivermore #Hanford
Climate climate change increasingly threatens research laboratories, weapons sites and power plants across the nation that handle or are contaminated with radioactive material or perform critical energy and defense research. The Department of Energy recently required existing sites to assess vulnerability to fires, floods and other disasters. Now the agency division that oversees active sites will decide how to consider future climate risks when issuing permits or licenses. The General Accounting Office is urging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to do the same for nuclear power plants.
W6LG has Cancer in his Blood, Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Rocketdyne
https://youtu.be/UYTvH6jIHCc?si=vKfKTfHt-rysBNn2
#SantaSusana #JimKeith #W6LG #BloodCancer #NuclearRadiation #ThreeMileIsland
The same is true for radionuclides, as residents of Simi Valley found out when radioactive particles from the Santa Susana nuclear meltdown of 1959 (of which they were unaware) were discovered after the Woolsey Fire of 2018:
"Wildfires can unlock toxic metal particles from soils, study finds"
#climate #wildfire #toxicity #SantaSusana
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-wildfires-toxic-metal-particles-soils.html
Massive #SantaSusana Lab #Contamination Deliberately Hidden Since 1981
By Michael Collins • on April 30, 2023
"This active conspiracy to deceive the public has lasted 42 years. Thousands of pages of documents have revealed shocking tales of #environmental crimes that are all the more alarming considering that #NASA will leave most of its deadly goo behind, fouling the water and land for hundreds of years to come. That land is now surrounded by over 700,000 residents within ten miles."
Read more:
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2023/04/massive-santa-susana-lab-contamination-deliberately-hidden-since-1981/
#Rocketdyne #NoNukes #NoWar #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #Pollution #WaterIsLife #California #MeierCanyon #Boeing #DOE #SantaSusanaFieldLab #SSFL
In an appeal before the Court of Appeal in Sacramento to be heard on Monday, the Newsom Administration will be challenged over positions that breach a longstanding agreement to require all radioactive waste from the Santa Susana Field Lab be disposed of at sites licensed and designed for such waste.
"Advocates Fear Radioactive Waste From One of California's Most Toxic Sites Could Contaminate More Communities"
"Now, Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab and other groups are worried the contamination from the lab will end up in communities far beyond the area.
That's because the field lab's owner, Boeing, is making plans to tear down five remaining radioactively contaminated buildings at Santa Susana, which housed nuclear reactors and a radioactive plutonium facility.
This week, four consumer and environmental groups went to the California Court of Appeal to compel the state to require Boeing to dispose of toxic debris from the buildings in landfills which are licensed to take it."
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