[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FIRE: "Woolsey Fire Started at Toxic Santa Susana Lab, " CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Woolsey Fire Started at Toxic Santa Susana Lab
Distrust of Agencies Spur Independent Study of Contamination from Site

By Physicians for Social Responsibility-LA, & Parents vs. SSFL
Nukewatch Quarterly 
Winter 2018-19

The Woolsey Fire began on November 8 at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) - a heavily contaminated experimental reactor and rocket testing facility 30 miles from Los Angeles - and burned much of the site. Government assurances that the fire did not risk increased exposures to SSFL contamination have been met with distrust and skepticism, in part because the very entities claiming there was no toxic risk from the SSFL fire are the ones responsible for contaminating it in the first place and violating commitments to clean it up.

In the face of broad public rejection of official reassurances by the troubled state toxics agency,  community members near the SSFL will participate in an independent study of potential migration of contamination from the site following the Woolsey Fire. Fairewinds Energy Education, a non-profit organization founded by former nuclear industry scientists, will conduct the study of dust and soil samples collected from homes in the area and sent to an East Coast laboratory for analysis.

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For the entire article, see
http://nukewatchinfo.org/woolsey-fire-started-at-toxic-santa-susana-lab/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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