[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Environmental groups say [Santa Susana Lab, CA] radioactive waste is going to landfills"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental groups say radioactive waste is going to landfills

By Jessica Garrison
Los Angeles Times
August 5, 2013


A coalition of environmental groups accused state regulators Monday  
of allowing low-level radioactive waste from the former Santa Susana  
Field Laboratory to be illegally disposed of in landfills not  
licensed to receive such material.

Consumer Watchdog,  the Center for Race Poverty and the Environment,  
and others said debris from six structures from the former nuclear  
research facility already had been delivered to municipal landfills  
and metal and concrete recyclers.

The environmental groups also threatened to seek a court order to  
stop the demolition and disposal of the plutonium fuel fabrication  
building if the state does not step in within 24 hours.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-radioactive- 
waste-20130805,0,662324.story

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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