There is an editorial in the Ventura County Reporter today, 8-6, by Michael Sullivan, commenting on the permit process for the contaminated soil removal from Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana Field Lab.  To read it, go to: http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/handle_with_care_santa_susana_field_lab/7148/ Michael Collins has posted “Truckin,” about the soil removal, on his website, EnviroReporter.com. To read his article, go to: http://www.enviroreporter.com/2009/08/truckin/
Entries Tagged as 'Rocketdyne'
More on Rocketdyne’s SSFL Toxic Dirt Removal and the Permit Process
August 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Ventura County
Ventura Supervisors Vote That Boeing Can Remove Toxic Dirt Without County Oversight
August 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Ventura County
Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks’ motion to have the removal of contaminated soil from Rocketdyne be covered by a discretionary permit process failed at the Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday. The story is in the Ventura County Star today, 8-5. The motion could have given the county input on conditions for removing the soil, including weather [...]
Tags: Rocketdyne·SSFL
Michael Collins, award-winning Reporter, Comments on Previous Rocketdyne-Denier Post
July 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Ventura County
I am pleased to post the following comments from Michael Collins, of www.EnviroReporter.com, and the LA Weekly. I have great appreciation for the investigative reporting he continues to do, about various toxic hot spots in the Southland, especially Rocketdyne. I also believe that an article he wrote in the Ventura County Reporter in December 2002, [...]
It Was Inevitable, Wasn’t It…Now There is a Person Denying the Rocketdyne Meltdown
July 31st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Ventura County
Michael Collins, in his website, www.EnviroReporter.com, reported yesterday that there was an article on a website called www.OurLa.org that really downplays what happened during the partial nuclear meltdown at the Sodium Reactor at Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana Field Lab, 50 years ago. Here is a link to the story: http://www.enviroreporter.com/2009/07/meltdown-denier/, http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/07/kayes_meltdown_denier_cal.php
Reporter Michael Collins’ Story of Rocketdyne Broken Fuel Rod, 7-23-59
July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
A worker at Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana Field Lab in Simi Valley was operating equipment to remove fuel rods from the core of the experimental sodium reactor, on July 23, 1959, due to the partial meltdown that had occurred on July 14, 1959. One of the rods was stuck, and in the effort to remove it, the [...]
Tags: Rocketdyne
