[CPEO-MEF] Rocketdyne (CA) 1959 meltdown - wind data

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Winds light on dire day at field lab

By Lisa Friedman
Los Angeles Daily News
November 30, 2007

WASHINGTON - The skies were clear and light winds blew in an easterly
direction on the day nearly a half-century ago that federal officials
insist was the only one during a 14-day partial nuclear meltdown when
the Santa Susana Field Laboratory might have emitted radioactive
materials into the air.

The first look at wind direction that day emerged Thursday from mounds
of meteorological data the Boeing Co. recently turned over to federal
officials after years of denying the information existed.

But federal officials cautioned that many factors have yet to be
analyzed and it still could take months to develop the data into a
useful model for better understanding the 1959 meltdown.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_7595448

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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
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