[CPEO-MEF] Santa Susana (CA) 1959 wind data

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

New field lab data might solve meltdown mystery

By Kerry Cavanaugh
Los Angeles Daily News
November 28, 2007

Decades after Santa Susana Field Lab neighbors first asked which way the 
wind was blowing during a 1959 partial nuclear meltdown at the site, lab 
officials have discovered the missing meteorological records.

The newly found data are expected to be vital in helping lab watchdogs 
and researchers more accurately estimate where radiation released during 
the meltdown could have moved during the accident and what communities 
might have been exposed.

Last year, a state-funded study determined that radiation released 
during the accident could have triggered 260 cancers in the area. But 
that analysis was stunted by the lack of data from the incident, 
including weather information.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_7575502

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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