Published: March 6th, 2012 at 1:34 am ET
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Title: Rocketdyne radiation is still abundant
Source: Contra Costa Times
Author: Susan Abram, Staff Writer
Date: 03/05/2012 07:49:52 PM PST
A partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor occurred at the former Rocketdyne site in the hills between Chatsworth and Simi Valley in 1959
- Radioactive chemicals [...] as much as 1,000 times higher than standards
- According to federal data released on Monday
- Of the 437 samples collected, 75 exceeded standards
- Seven radioactive isotopes, including one known as cesium-137, measured at levels between 100 to 1,000 times higher than the standards. Other radionuclides that suggest nuclear presence include strontium-90, tritium, plutonium, and carbon-14.
Community Response
The recent data is significant to residents, activists and public officials who have fought for years for the removal of radiation and chemical contaminants [...]
The numbers provides hard evidence that not only do the radioactive materials exist, but that the levels are higher than expected.
[...] They wonder what else can be brewing within the rocks, the earth, and the groundwater within the 2,849-acre property.
Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica
- “This confirms what we were worried about”
- “This begins to answer critical questions about what’s still up there, where, how much, and how bad”
- The findings are “extremely disappointing, especially because the site has already undergone two cleanup efforts by its owner, The Boeing Co., and the Department of Energy. Each declared the land fully cleaned”
Dan Hirsch, president of the activist group Committee to Bridge the Gap
- “People have been waiting for this information for years”
- “All those years, we were told it was clean”
- “This data prove we’re not just a bunch of unknowledgeable people, but that everyday people are proven right”
“These are remarkable findings” -Denise Duffield, executive director for Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles
Read the report here
“The Santa Susana Field Laboratory is a complex of industrial research and development facilities located on a 2,668-acre portion of the Southern California Simi Hills in Simi Valley, California [...] The site is located approximately 7 miles (11 km) northwest from the community of Canoga Park and approximately 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Sage Ranch Park is adjacent on part of the northern boundary and the community of Bell Canyon along the entire southern boundary.” -Wikipedia
16 miles northeast of Malibu, CA
See also:
- US nuke commission "essentially lied" about one of worst nuclear disasters in history near Los Angeles, up to 240 times Three Mile Island -- 13 fuel rods melted with no containment (VIDEO)
- Erin Brockovich taking on nuke industry: "Massive amounts of cancer" in hometown near L.A. -- Astounded by rare, rare cancers among youth (VIDEOS)
More on the Simi Valley meltdown:
Published: March 6th, 2012 at 1:34 am ET
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There is simply put, No way to clean up radioactivity that is let loose to the environment' Period !!
Evacuate … Evacuate the Planet !!
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I keep looking through my scope Cindy, and well…no other planets within reach, I will keep trying.
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Shared this via blog, network and syndicate
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/los-angeles-nuclear-plant-meltdown.html
I lived in Los Angeles for years and never heard about this.. It is interesting how easy it is to hide something like this in plain open sight.
Radiation is invisible, but even low dose radiation kills and maims just as surely as bombs, missiles and bullets. It just takes longer.
Low Dose Chernobyl and Fukushima Radiation Dangers To Children
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1693739515355388462#editor/target=post;postID=8625503867296210272
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Yep, that section of LA got trashed from the accident.
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Hey admin,
Headline sounds like now, but story from 1959. Yes, the rad is still now, but the headline is unfair.
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Hi Arizonan,
The article writer makes no reference to date in the headline: "Rocketdyne radiation is still abundant"
Also, the report is just a few hours old and "people have been waiting for this information for years" so the story isn't from 1959. See Erin Brockovich's interview from a few weeks ago: "Massive amounts of cancer" in hometown near L.A. — Astounded by rare, rare cancers among youth
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Thanks for clarification!
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HI Admin,
Couldn't get the movie to launch where Erin Brokovich is interviewed. Here's an alternate link, thanks:
http://www.ecohookups.com/video/brockovich-our-unknown-nuclear-issues-via-erin-burnett-s-out
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New post on Huffpost, very anti nuke, join in the conversation.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-alvarez/no-nuclear-nirvana_b_1322742.html
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Nuclear shills are all over that thread.
Reinforcements from the "good guys" would be welcome.
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Money is the root of all evil.
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No, maaa.
Money is inherently neutral.
The LOVE of money is the root of all evil.
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Two cleanings huh? Hey Japan tepgov… PAY ATTENTION!
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Nuke needs to lie to exist
http://nukeproffesional.blogspot.com/2012/03/tepco-busted-dead-to-rights-on.html
TEPCO Busted Dead to Rights on Photoshopping to Deceive
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201202290027
Check out this photo which is in the link above
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Now who are you going to believe? Seems to like some groups of people might be fibbing.
These are your providers of truth?
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/chernobyl.html
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2011/nci-17.htm
Hmmm..
http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3146
http://www.strahlentelex.de/Yablokov%20Chernobyl%20book.pdf
Use the Force!
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Money, maaa san, is a means to an end.
A pathalogical need to control, to the nth degree, is the root.
Some folks just don't feel the tribe hence the need to control.
Food,money,energy.
Alas, protests and petitions don't work on controls freaks
sigh
wait…I know…how bout this from ehow
Unusual Solutions for root/stump removal
Two ingenious home remedies do make sense but may not be practical for all homeowners. Where carpenter ants are common, sprinkling a dead stump with sugar could make the old wood attractive to this relatively harmless insect swarm. Carpenter ants do not eat wood but do tunnel through and nest in rotting wood. Old stumps could disappear faster when sweetened and the carpenter ants pose no threat to buildings in good condition. For country folk, penning poultry around the stump has worked well. Chickens tear apart the rotting wood in search of grubs and bugs but also shred everything else in the enclosure. The real effectiveness of either method is unproven but both are clearly environmentally safe. lol
What to do
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Greetings, I'm uh, kinda dense on this one. How does one apply the carpenter ant solution to the situation being discussed here?
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LMAO off HoTaters,…most of us walked away from that one,…love your MOXY!
Here's my guess at a suitable 'application'. Pour honey on TEPCOs (heads),…and let loose red ants? (buried in sand up to their lying necks, of course!)
Could be the theory, right?
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Something smells fishy…..bet you these samples were collected after March 2011.
I see this card being played when more of the truth comes out.
"The findings are "extremely disappointing, especially because the site has already undergone two cleanup efforts by its owner, The Boeing Co., and the Department of Energy. Each declared the land fully cleaned"
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Exactly!
And when it finally gets so bad that they can't find a nearby reactor or disaster site to blame it on, they'll say it was a dirty bomb from Iran, and Obama can finally get the war he longs for.
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Could it be that 3-11-11 just added to the 1959 pile??
They wouldn't necessarily test for C134 on this site, which remains the best marker for FRESH Fission Product…
Boeing and DOE are like peanut butter and jelly, wine and chocolate, or flies on poop.
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Why is this information coming out now?
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Why is it coming out now? Because of numerous reasons and Enenews being one of them. Take a bis Admin and all the posters.
The Japan crisis has spurred interest in older stories of secret NPP blowouts and led to new whistleblowers. Testing and equipment is more affordable. But mainly… People are just pissed off at the assault on their lives by a rotten corrupt nuclearocracy. Its days are numbered and I hope to live to see every power plant shuttered and the debris safely stored for eternity (because we know that is how long that montriys poison will last).
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Sorry… Early iPhone fingers today: Take a bow Admin and posters.
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This could be the big smokin gun (make it a cannon) to finally open the veil of lies from the feds.
And how about that Erin! Wow! She could be the next Ralph Nader: "Nuclear Power: Unsafe at Any Level"
I'd vote for Erin Brockovich for President anytime!
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Sheesh! How many smoking guns do we need?
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Hehe yes,
thanks to Fukushima the Americans start to wake up.
People get wary and there is much to discover of nuke legacy in us.
If you need materials for dirty bombs, just drive to West Valley and dig out the high level waste.
Many sites like that scattered all over the us.
Have fun finding
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I don't think the feds are worried about their "veil of lies" being exposed. Not when all they have to do is this:http://www.sott.net/articles/show/242526-Shut-Up-and-Go-Away-US-Congress-passes-fascist-anti-protest-law
Sometimes I wonder if we are upset at the extent of these lies, or the magnitude of this disastor or that we are coming face to face with not only the government that we built here but the governments that have been established throughout the world. Reality can be very sobering…………
Tom
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One of the members of my other forum lives just down the hill from Santa Susana, and until recently knew nothing of the danger.. His family grew up there, and all have died of cancer, and he himself has cancer as well.. When I posted last year about Santa Susana he was completely taken by surprise.. They never even hinted of any danger to the local residents..
So do you think they will tell the truth about Fukushima??
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The truth will become undeniable when people in Fukushima will die in masses this way.
But, when that insight becomes common, it will be 2060+ and too late for many thousands of people.And the genetic damage will be inherited.then, irreversibly.
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10,000 Curies = 370 TBq
This from only 7 partially melted fuel rods.
What is the estimate for Fuku…
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about a billion curie.
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that was including all radionuclides.
Fukushima iodine release alone iirc "only" was in the order of about 10^17 Bq, which is several megacuries.
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Chernobyl: "The total release of radionuclides to the environment has been approximated to be somewhere in the range of 1900 PBq of activity (in a Report to the US Department of Energy) and 12 EBq (in the assessment of the OECD Nuclear Power Agency). That is a range of about 51 million Ci to 324 million Ci"
(Source: http://agls.uidaho.edu/etoxweb/resources/Case%20Study/Chernob6.pdf) {IAEA says ca 50 million curies}
"An independent estimate of the initial Chernobyl release is 240 million curies …" (The American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land … – Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0199881669…Howard G. Wilshire, Jane E. Nielson, Richard W. Hazlett – 2008 – )
FUKUSHIMA: estimates so far are at around 1 billion curies, so several orders of magnitude MORE than Chernobyl. Not sure where estimate comes from or who did conversions. This estimate appears to be for one radionuclide – caesium – from one reactor only. We do not have a Fukushima "total release" figure yet. (I think those will eventually have to be nnual reports.)
"Fukushima 1 released 40,000 trillion becquerel of Radio-Cesium which are: 40,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 becquerel: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201202290025" I think IAEA is still standing by their ridiculous estimate of 60 million curies for Fukushima, which puts it 10 million ahead of Chernobyl even by official estimates. (UN Agency's Fukushima Report: “The total release amount was … 60 Million Curies Radiation Released At Fukushima, Only 50 Million Chernobyl . … 10, 2012: http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/10l-of-…ge-500000bqcm3/ …)
By the way, wikipedia estimates 15 curies released at 1979 Three Mile Island 'accident.' That's the official figure. I have also seen unofficial figures that go as high as 240 million curies for TMI. Never measured accurately I think, as on the ground mutations/experiences never matched what officials said had been released.
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There have been some official release estimates for Fuku-I.
However they are on a Japanese document released long time ago and I lost the link.
Most of the releases were as very short-lived isotopes that usually don't get mentioned in official radiation measurements.
And these official estimates have been revised to be higher than the initial release estimate.
The alleged official TMI release figures only mention I-131, no other isotopes, and are a "estimate" at all, too
Very "helpful" was that the radiation measurement instrumentation was "at service" at the accident time, so there is no data available. Other sampling data done by the govt are classified up to today if I remember correctly.
So I believe it is safe to assume that it was quite a lot more than 15 curie. The experiences that were reported in the testimonies indicate way more, just taking the widespread metallic taste into account.
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Thanks Admin. I knew all along that Simi Valley was a much bigger story than was ever reported. I think some of this may also be attributable to Fukushima as well.
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+1.
Just lets hope the admin will be careful not to post every junk rumor that Fukushima Diary spreads.
Which would be very contraproductive.
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Wow! I had no idea. Reading up on it now I am learning all kinds of things. Like the fact that they had another melt down in 1964 which involved 80% of the nuclear fuel!!!!! Mother F#%kers!!!
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=06-P13-00003&segmentID=1
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Atomfritz,…..Fukushima Diary is our friend.
Just because he can not PROVE every tip he receives,….you can not say they are lies, or untrue. Where is YOUR proof? Hummm?
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Look at this story for example.
Every prank gets published at Fukushima Diary, no matter how absurd it is.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/breaking-news-whistle-blower-talks-container-vessel-is-melting-like-honeycomb/
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I have questioned a news release at FD before here on Enenews months ago. But what is your complaint about the honeycomb story?
I think I've seen some photos and videos that indicate black melting fuel overflowing from the wreckage so perhaps that is what the whistleblower was referring to.
FD has a lot better ear to the ground than all us non-natives. He is a good source to receive Honshu tips and being an expatriate he has less pressure from the yakuza. Some postings at FD may be rumors, but we have a lot of noise around here also as much as we have signal. I am going to give him a lot of journalistic leeway…he doesn't have a wide social net to fall back on.
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My family came very close to moving to Simi Valley in 1960.
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Wonder if Whoopie has seen this one yet?
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No wonder Bakersfield is such a "hot spot". This crap blows right into the valley….
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Thyroid cancer rates are sky rocketing in Southern California. This is where much of our produce and food is grown. Millions have now eaten, breathed and drank this past and new nuclear radiation contamination now spewing all over the world.
You can't ever cleanup an invisible mutagenic cancer ghost. You can only hope it will decay and disappear on its own.
No Nuclear "Cancer Ghost Buster" will save any of us. Cancer and disease is now the norm and good health is now the rarity.
Weep for the world's future..
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Yes this is troubling
I grew up ~10 miles east of this meltdown and remember going hiking many times in Chatsworth mountains
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@obewanskeaks A disturbing video of plant growth in California in July / August 2011 time period. It shows deformations of various plants, and trees. The poster seems unaware of what is going on.
Florawatcher's channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMCoWmr6u4E
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Having been a lurker here a long time, I am so glad I live in the rain shadow east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Once upon a time, I missed not getting the rain storms that Bakersfield did, now I count this as a blessing.
A friend's husband worked at Rocketdyne when they lived in Reseda and after they moved here, he passed away from a cancer at in his early 50s. She was always suspicious that the illness was related with the environment at his job but could never prove it.
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These comments are troubling. It indicates to me that there are many people here on ENENews that still have no idea what is happening with the Fukushima crisis. The truth has been told, why is no one reading it? http://www.nrc.gov <—- it's all right here in black and white.
As for ENENews, it's a great site. Actually, I think it's the best site. It was my number one go to site and allowed me to spend most of my time learning nuclear science and nuclear engineering. It helped take the stress off of trying to find reliable information regarding the current events.
Thank You ENENews!
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CB, yes Arcata and other parts certainly got slammed by this Fukushima recent fallout event as did the Sierra Foothills. We did not get as slammed as bad as they did up north though and or in other parts of the West Coast and Canada.
There is has been much talk by the commenters here about these mutagenic events, as the rest of the world ignores these real nuclear contamination ramifications and biosphere mutations going on all around us. It is sad that there is such apathy inside our general populations about such matters.
These plant mutations much like the witches brooms often discovered in nuclear radiated contaminated fallout areas are evidence of the genetic damage now being done everywhere. A witches broom is the behavior found in the plant kingdom that mirrors the biological mutagenic cancer growth found in the animal kingdom.
It all appears to be one and the same and its such a shame.
Weep for our futures my friend…
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Radiation Readings Soar at Rocketdyne (more info)
March 6th, 2012
article by Michael Collins – EnviroReporter.com
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/radiation-readings-soar-at-rocketdyne/
WoW!
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Thanks for the interesting link!
Part of the reactor wastes were just shallowly buried, and it's no overly speculation that they spread around now from the burial sites.
Maybe it could be a very funny action form to dig out the burial sites and throw the excavated stuff into the gate of the White House
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ChasAha,
Great article but it is not very good news for the entire world. This industry is very young and when you look at some of the "Anomalies" or is it now called "Atomalies" popping up everywhere, we may all be in for a wild ride on the Nuclear Radiation Contamination side of things.
The cesium levels are still very high in Simi Valley and then there is this article to ponder.
http://enenews.com/scientists-don’t-know-why-cesium-137-in-soil-near-chernobyl-has-half-life-of-180-to-320-years-not-30-years-as-is-typical/comment-page-1
Could our scientists have made a huge mistake in the decay rates for certain manmade radioactive isotopes being created by all these repeated disasters, bomb blasts/tests and operational releases into our environment and ecosystem.
How many of these little radioactive invisible rascals have we really released in the last 60 years on Planet Earth well below our protective magnetosphere grid? How many are still here giving off sustaining decaying energy signatures into our planet's atmosphere and ecosystem?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_contamination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission_product
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_radioactivity
What if the scientists were all wrong and these radioactive energy signatures and isotopes do not decay properly based on the 1/2 life decay rates they calculated and sold to the public trust?
I would say we will all be in for a "Very Bumpy Ride" if they were mistaken about these given calculated decay rates and so would be any weather patterns affected by these lingering decaying energy signatures.
We might just be cooking ourselves as I type this and that would be a very bad thing to do for all the biological life found our planet.
I guess we will know soon enough since most of these isotopes are still here and…
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@obewanspeaks: they're able to accurately determine the half-life an isotope from its physical properties. They didn't guess or extrapolate how these structures were produced.
What's really frightening is the fact that they can have durations that can last into thousands-and-thousands of years; some into hundreds-of-thousands of years! Relative to their lifetimes, our species might as well have just arrived on the scene. And they would have had to know that the byproducts of their industry would last this long.
It's become an inter-generational dance of death. That such 'knowledgeable' scientist and engineers would have turned a blind eye to this cold reality, is – to say the least – staggering…
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… still present and yes they appear to be still giving off sizable energy decay radiation readings.
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W8R, there is a citizen-run epidemiological site for those who have been harmed by the Santa Susana nuclear accident. Cancer, cancer cluster – they want to know what happened, where the people lived, what years. It's on Facebook at: Secrets of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Have your forum member go there and register. I've discovered several of my friends were impacted by this accident and didn't know it until I started sharing the information.
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Auntie Nuke, I have a friend who had thyroid cancer and her mother got cancer living downwind of Santa Susanna. Thank you for letting us know. I will pass this along. I am sure she'll appreciate it.
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