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| Do Not Build in a Hot Zone Fukushima meltdowns awaken America about the dangers of radiation |
| The Radiation Rangers are horrified at the tragic events in Japan after the unprecedented earthquake and tsunami. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the people of Japan. Adding to the misery of the Japanese people, and to the anxiety of people across the globe, is the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant meltdowns. Multiple meltdowns with spent fuel rods smouldering and sending a radioactive plume into the sky. As of this writing, April 7, 2011, the reactors have not gone totally critical. The radioactive fallout from Japan has already arrived on our shores. Here in California, radioactive Iodine-131 has been found in San Luis Obispo milk and the highest readings in the state for Iodine-131 one day last week were in Anaheim. The fallout has been found in Idaho, Washington, Missouri and other midwest states in even higher concentrations. The only radiation sensor Don't you wish you could just wake up and the Japanese meltdowns weren't happening and the obscene polluting of the environment by the most powerful killers on the face of the planet, radionuclides from the cores of breached reactors. Don't you wish you could do something to protect yourself and your family against radiation? Would you sit idly by while the government has okayed a development next to America's worst partial nuclear meltdown? |
| The best is yet to come... |
| Well that's what's happening here in Simi Valley, California where KB Home is dead set on building a huge development in the shadow of where America's worst partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor took place! Shockingly, but not surprisingly, the State of California has given the go-ahead to this project after a three year investigation by the Department of Toxic Substances Control which totally ignored the community's demands for adequate and trustworthy tests of the soil and blew off testing of Runkle Canyon Creek water saying it wasn't a drinking water source when it surely is. DTSC has given the City of Simi Valley the false impression that all is adequately tested for in Runkle Canyon. It trumpeted in newspapers in December 2010 that they had re-tested the land with the developers and that magically the extremely high levels of the deadly radionuclide Strontium-90 found in earlier developer reports were not trustworthy. |
| In 2005, news reports exposed that there was high radiation in Runkle Canyon. Since that time and before, the government has bent over backwards to help the developer slide around adequate testing of this land. We have called them on it every time. We have produced hundreds of pages of scientific comment and questions to DTSC, as did other community members, and all of this work was dismissed. But those dismissals will come back to haunt the department and the City of Simi Valley. They are all available online. The proof that this place has not been adequately tested, that there is evidence of illegal Rocketdyne debris in Runkle Canyon that the State knew about but has done nothing about, and that the the department and city know it, will come out soon. We wish it weren't this way. We had believed that the government would look out after the well being of its citizens. It has not. So we will. Just like we have always done. New evidence is about to come to light that will make anyone with any sense, and belief in the law, question how we could have come to this place on the long road to Runkle Canyon. |
| Those claims were false. Not only did the toxics department and KB Home use old outdated methods to retest a limited number of soil samples in the huge canyon, even with those skewed and inaccurate tests, high Strontium-90 was found! KB Home's lab that reported their findings, Dade Moeller, had a whopping 38% failure rate testing soil samples for Strontium-90, hardly a glowing sign of scientific prowess in the laboratory. The Department of Toxic Substances Control blew off two extensive water testing reports, one by the Radiation Rangers and one by the City of Simi Valley, both of which showed high levels of heavy metals coming down Runkle Canyon Creek when it's running. DTSC took just two water samples and declared the water a non issue since there was nothing in it and it wasn't drinking water. The department was wrong on both counts: the water we tested was polluted and so was the city's. In addition, the public will soon learn that the developer has pulled a fast one getting around testing that water even when ordered to by your Stat government. Since 2006, the Radiation Rangers of Simi Valley have fought a 461 home development in Runkle Canyon next to the former Rocketdyne complex, the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. In 1959, the Sodium Reactor Experiment partially melted down over two weeks in July releasing between 240 to 459 times more radiation than at the Three Mile Island partial meltdown twenty years later. |
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant meltdowns - 2011
Looking into the melted core of the Sodium Reactor Experiment in 1959. The site is a mile
away from Rocketdyne's border with adjacent Runkle Canyon.
away from Rocketdyne's border with adjacent Runkle Canyon.
| Newest Radiation Ranger "Wild Bill" Bowling |
| The Radiation Rangers are pleased to announce the newest member of their posse, "Wild Bill" Bowling. This Radiation Ranger rides with a well-known reputation as one of the most active and accomplished Rocketdyne activists. Wild Bill is currently building his Aerospace Contamination Museum of Education in Chatsworth, the second incarnation of the museum he founded and operated in Lake Shore Manor. The museum is a treasure trove of material related to the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and includes maps, photos, data bases, reports, and memorabilia from Rocketdyne that is unsurpassed anywhere. Cleaning up Rocketdyne is a passion for this Radiation Ranger and he gets results. In 2007, Wild Bill helped uncover a giant field of Rocketdyne-related debris in a gully between the lab and adjacent Boy Scout camp Sage Ranch. The discovery of the contaminated material, including black and grey blocks of lung-destroying asbestos and broken pipes with the toxic heavy metal antimony, led to our man contacting the Department of Toxic Substances Control which, amazingly considering its actions in the last year, ordered an extensive cleanup. Now Wild Bill has his sights set on Runkle Canyon. "I have found evidence of Rocketdyne-related material being dumped in Runkle Canyon that is definitely a danger to the public," says Wild Bill. "The idea that KB Home could build on this land after it spent years trying to disprove previous developers' extensive scientific investigations for Strontium-90 contamination in Runkle Canyon is outrageous. "I am proud to have become a Radiation Ranger," says Wild Bill. "I will fulfill my duties as such to the best of my abilities for my fellow Rangers, for my family and for my Country." |
"Wild Bill" Bowling has joined the Radiation Rangers in the fight
over Runkle Canyon and Rocketdyne.
over Runkle Canyon and Rocketdyne.