[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, CONTRACTORS: "Rocketdyne [Santa Susana Lab, CA] radiation is still abundant"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Rocketdyne radiation is still abundant

By Susan Abram
Los Angeles Daily News
March 5, 2012

Some levels of radioactive chemicals found on a portion of the Santa  
Susana Field Laboratory site were as much as 1,000 times higher than  
standards, according to federal data released on Monday.

Acting as an independent monitor, officials with the U.S.  
Environmental Protection Agency conducted radiological surveys on a  
portion of the land known as Area IV, where a partial meltdown of a  
nuclear reactor occurred in 1959.

That portion is currently overseen by the Department of Energy.

The results of the radiological survey show that of the 437 samples  
collected, 75 exceeded standards agreed upon by the DOE and the  
California Department of Toxic Substances Control in a cleanup  
agreement signed in December 2010.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_20108641/rocketdyne-radiation-is-still- 
abundant?source=most_viewed

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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