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| About Rocketdyne |
Less than a mile away from Runkle Canyon is “Area IV” of Boeing’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory, better known as Rocketdyne. In 1959,
there was a partial meltdown of the “Sodium Reactor Experiment” in which a third of the core melted. More than 15 to 459 times the
amount of radiation that escaped the Three Mile Island meltdown in 1979 was simply exhausted out of the unfortified and uncontained
reactor above Simi Valley.
And this was just one of many accidents that happened over half a century just a mile away from Runkle Canyon. Is Rocketdyne the source
of Runkle’s Strontium-90 problem?
Here is a sampling of articles that might provide the answer:
TWO MILE ISLAND (Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat - July 22, 2004)
The Rocketdyne facility is more poisoned than anyone knew. Now residents and community leaders of the northwest San Fernando Valley
and Ventura County supervisors want more testing before new homes get any closer.
HOT ZONE (Los Angeles magazine - June 1998)
Rocketdyne’s Simi Valley Field Laboratory was on the frontlines of the Cold War. Now some who lived near “The Hill” say they share two
distinctions: chronic illness and the unswerving belief that the lab caused it
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN (Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat – June 12, 2003)
Simi Valley's Rocketdyne facility was blasted by 50 years of rocket engines and nuclear reactor meltdowns, leaving a toxic disaster atop what
residents call
THE SINS OF ROCKETDYNE (Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat - July 3, 2003)
THE FALLOUT (Los Angeles ValleyBeat - February 16, 2006)
Two new reports find elevated cancers and other risks within a few miles of Rocketdyne
VERY DIRTY LAUNDRY (Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat - October 12, 2006)
The 1959 Rocketdyne meltdown released 459 times more radiation than Three Mile Island, up to 1,800 got cancer because
of it, and that radiation and chemicals are migrating off the huge lab in all directions.
there was a partial meltdown of the “Sodium Reactor Experiment” in which a third of the core melted. More than 15 to 459 times the
amount of radiation that escaped the Three Mile Island meltdown in 1979 was simply exhausted out of the unfortified and uncontained
reactor above Simi Valley.
And this was just one of many accidents that happened over half a century just a mile away from Runkle Canyon. Is Rocketdyne the source
of Runkle’s Strontium-90 problem?
Here is a sampling of articles that might provide the answer:
TWO MILE ISLAND (Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat - July 22, 2004)
The Rocketdyne facility is more poisoned than anyone knew. Now residents and community leaders of the northwest San Fernando Valley
and Ventura County supervisors want more testing before new homes get any closer.
HOT ZONE (Los Angeles magazine - June 1998)
Rocketdyne’s Simi Valley Field Laboratory was on the frontlines of the Cold War. Now some who lived near “The Hill” say they share two
distinctions: chronic illness and the unswerving belief that the lab caused it
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN (Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat – June 12, 2003)
Simi Valley's Rocketdyne facility was blasted by 50 years of rocket engines and nuclear reactor meltdowns, leaving a toxic disaster atop what
residents call
THE SINS OF ROCKETDYNE (Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat - July 3, 2003)
THE FALLOUT (Los Angeles ValleyBeat - February 16, 2006)
Two new reports find elevated cancers and other risks within a few miles of Rocketdyne
VERY DIRTY LAUNDRY (Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat - October 12, 2006)
The 1959 Rocketdyne meltdown released 459 times more radiation than Three Mile Island, up to 1,800 got cancer because
of it, and that radiation and chemicals are migrating off the huge lab in all directions.
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