[CPEO-MEF] Rocketdyne (CA) waste

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The cancer effect
One former Rocketdyne employee recalls dumping waste after the incident

By Teresa Rochester
Ventura County Star (CA)
October 30, 2006

The work took place at night, not long after the sun had set.

Under the glare of a floodlight, five men from Rocketdyne chatted and 
chided each other as they moved valves and 55-gallon drums of 
contaminated liquid sodium, discards from a sodium-cooled nuclear 
reactor operated by Atomics International at the Santa Susana Field 
Laboratory on a hilltop south of Simi Valley.

It was late summer 1959. In mid-July, a third of that reactor's core had 
melted down, releasing radioactivity.

Nobody told the men.

But as they went about their work, they learned of the accident. Still, 
they kept working.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/county_news/article/0,1375,VCS_226_5104390,00.html


See also

Young mom with malignant cysts suspects illness stems from the hilltop 
testing site

By Teresa Rochester
Ventura County Star (CA)
October 30, 2006

Sarah Woodward was tethered to intravenous lines and lying in a bed at 
Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura when a phone call came that sent 
her mother and then her father running from the room.

Her parents came back in tears.

The four massive cysts - two the size of a grapefruit, two even larger - 
removed from the Ojai woman's right ovary were cancerous.


For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/county_news/article/0,1375,VCS_226_5104337,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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