[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, DISPOSAL: Santa Susana waste to Kettleman Hills (CA)?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dispute over radioactive dirt going to Calif site

By NOAKI SCHWARTZ Associated Press Writer
San Jose Mercury New (CA)
December 11, 2009

LOS ANGELES - Boeing Co. and NASA have applied to the state to haul 
tainted soil from a partial nuclear meltdown at a former rocket test lab 
to a San Joaquin Valley dump that's not licensed to accept radioactive 
waste.

The proposal before the California Department of Toxic Substances 
Control has been assailed by activists and residents who live near the 
cleanup site and the town near the hazardous waste site.

If radioactive waste is allowed to go to Kettleman facility it could 
create "a defacto unlicensed radioactive dump at a place not designed 
for it," said Dan Hirsch, who heads the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a 
nuclear policy group focused on the cleanup at the former nuclear 
testing site.

The dirt was dug up as part of a cleanup effort at the Santa Susana 
Field Laboratory near Los Angeles, where rocket engines were tested for 
years and a partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor took place in 1959. 
The U.S. Department of Energy, NASA and Boeing are responsible for a 
cleanup that is being overseen by the state and could potentially cost 
$1 billion.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13977948?nclick_check=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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