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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Radioactive hot spots remain at former research facility's site
A federal study shows hundreds of hot spots at the 2,850-acre  
facility, overlooking the west San Fernando Valley, half a century  
after a partial nuclear meltdown there.

By Louis Sahagun
Los Angeles Times
December 18, 2012

Half a century after America's first partial nuclear meltdown,  
hundreds of radioactive hot spots remain at a former research  
facility overlooking the west San Fernando Valley, according to a  
recently released federal study.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's $41-million survey of the  
facility, now owned by Boeing Co. and NASA, is expected to provide a  
precise map for state and federal agencies hoping to clean up the  
site by 2017.

It also sets the stage for determining a final disposition for the  
2,850-acre site, which is home to rare plants, great horned owls and  
four-point bucks.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-meltdown- 
study-20121218,0,2007532.story

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