[CPEO-MEF] "Santa Susana Field Lab (CA) cleanup saga hits 20"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Field of secrets: The Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup saga hits 20

Editorial
Los Angeles Daily News
June 20, 2009

BEFORE the spring of 1989, all most people knew of the Santa Susana 
Field Lab were the occasional rocket tests that sent a thundering boom 
across the Valley and shook the homes in West Hills, Chatsworth and Simi 
Valley, near the hilltop facility.

The sprawling 2,859-acre lab built during the Cold War developed and 
tested rocket engines that powered missiles and, eventually, the Apollo 
and space shuttle missions.

But 20 years ago last month, the Daily News obtained and reported on an 
environmental survey that, for the first time, revealed extensive toxic 
and radioactive contamination from a 290-acre U.S. Atomic Energy 
Commission nuclear research facility located at lab.

...

For the entire editorial, see
http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_12655706

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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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