Saturday, November 17, 2018

LA's Secret Nuclear Meltdown and the Woolsey Fire


The Santa Susana sodium reaction experienced a nuclear meltdown in 1959 in the Los Angeles area of Simi Valley. Here is a video that explains what happened:



Here is the description of the film:
Documentary film covering the top secret 1959 Sodium Reactor meltdown in Los Angeles, California. The incident, kept secret for decades, resulted in the deaths of an estimated 300 to 1,800 people and is the suspected source of elevated cancer rates in adjacent suburban communities. The amount of contaminants released have been estimated at over 400 times that of the highly publicized Three Mile Island incident.  
This film features accounts from former Atomics International employees detailing the incident that sent highly radioactive gases over parts of Los Angeles for two weeks. Employees also recall illegal acts of mass pollution such as open burn pits that sent radioactive waste into the open air for decades.  
These experiments took place at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, in the hills between Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and Simi Valley. The film gathers comprehensive incident footage and testimonial interviews with local survivors, physicians, scientists, researchers and reporters regarding the 1959 meltdown and the grassroots movements to clean the site in order to save generations from exposure to it's migrating contaminants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVhtygifsuE
During the meltdown, operators deliberately "vented" highly radioactive gasses into the environment for weeks. Additionally, operators routinely (for decades) engaged in open-air burning of radioactive and chemical waste in at least two burn sites.

A secret government study reported in the film documented widespread radioactive contamination, with horrific health consequences for community members.

Since Nov 8 this month the Woolsey fire has raged near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory with no adequate monitoring of radiation levels:
John Laforge. (2018, November 16). Woolsey Fire Burns Toxic Santa Susana Reactor Site. Counterpunch, https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/16/wolsey-fire-burns-toxic-santa-susana-reactor-site/
The Woolsey fire in California began Nov. 8 near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), site of a partial reactor meltdown, the consequences of which have never been cleaned up. The California Department of Toxic Substances Control released a statement early Nov. 9 saying its scientists “don’t believe that the fire has caused any releases of hazardous materials that would pose a risk to people exposed to the smoke.”
The fire’s progress through to Oak Park indicates that much of the toxic site burned, according to the Los Angeles chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility which has investigated SSFL radiation risks for 30 years.
Use of the phrase “don’t believe” [the fire caused risk] by the Dept. of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) had to stand in for a clear denial of radiation risk because none of the site’s air monitors had yet been seen by the department.
Fires release radionculides sequestered in flora.

Last night while unwisely hiking, I noticed smoke hanging in our Phoenix air.

I hurried home.

Too late.


7 comments:

  1. Firestorm Apocalypse in California
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1-EIuat538

    If true this is important and scary. The technology and science behind the fires of recent years.

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    1. FRANK ZAPPA, NUCULAR SPACESHIPS, THE FIRES

      THERE WERE 3 RADIATION FALLOUT RELEASES AT SANTA SUSANA NOT 1. THEY OCCURED IN 1959, 1964, 1969
      http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20140613-column.html%3foutputType=amp

      “Until 2006, the site was operated by private corporations for federal agencies — chiefly NASA. The problems there began in 1959, when a nuclear reactor partially melted down, contaminating portions of the hilltop facility and spewing radioactive gases into the atmosphere. That incident wasn’t publicly disclosed until 1979. By then, more mishaps had followed, including reactor accidents in 1964 and 1969. The worst contamination is thought to be in a parcel known as Area IV, where the meltdown occurred”

      50 years of the worst radioactive shit in the universe accumulated in Simi valley, where the horrendous fire occured, that englufed ventura county and malibu.  3 nuclear meltdowns occured at Santa susana in a 10 year period. Multiple ignitions of shitty nuclear reactor engines, that just spewed radioactive shit into the valley, everytime they fired it off.  The recent fires in Ventura county, picked up that cesium 137, plutonium yada yada yada, and suspended it in the air all over Socal. Everyone there is breathing it.

      I knew a Doctor raised south of Santa Susana. His one and only child, was born deaf and blind with deformities. His three siblings died of cancer, at relatively young ages.

      Frank Zappa was from Lancaster, and went to High School close to there. His father was affiliated with government research close to santa susana. FRANK may not have been in Lancaster when the first meltdown occured, but there was nuclear research there in the early 50s.

      Watch for a massive uptick in the indidence of Reactive airway disease, intractable respiratory infections in children this winter.  Watch for a large spike cancer, in the next few years in SoCal.
      Frank zappa died of the most hideous, fast growing metastatic-prostate cancer possible.

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    2. That was at age 53.

      Now Russia says, they are gonna build a nuclear rocket to send to mars. Like the Nuclear Rockets and reactors, they were testing at Santa Susana.

      Russia can barely make nuclear submarines, that do not irradiate their crews ro death, after a few runs.  Even their newest, most modern reactor designs are atrocious heaps of junk. They tried testing a nuclear propelled cruise rocket recently, and lost it to further irradiate the hell out of the earths oceans.

      Russia’s newest commercial nuclear reactors, that they are pawning off on 3rd and 2nd world countries, have big problems. They leak like a sieve of tritium and the worst radionuclides. They have shitty containment. Their structural integrity is so poor, they can blow at any time. The fuel they use is unstable and dangerous.

      I predict the Russians will kill a few thousand people, building their nuclear rocket-death-trap. They will permanently contaminate, a few towns in siberia-Santa Susana-style. They will ruin all life there. They will  give, what workers that survive the project short lives and cancer, with great risk of reproducing.

      When they do get  their nuclear mars abomination  going, they will probably have an accident shooting the nuclear motor into orbit. There will be a few hundred or more pounds of plutonium chunks and massive amounts of radioactive plutonium vapor, dispersed on the earth.

      If they do get a nuclear rocket up, it will most likely irradiate its crew to death, quite quickly or explode when they fire-up the nuclear reactor  motor and, try to push fuel through it. The fuel that exits the reactor  rocket nozzel, to propel their howdy-doody nuclear spaceship is radioactive as fuk, by the way. Just like the propellent exiting the nuclear rocket nozzel at santa susana, when they were testing nuclear rocket motors At Santa Susana. Only the russians have a worse record with exploding small nuclear reactors than murica does. 

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    3. Major accidents have occured  several times with new russian, submarine projects. 

      Let us say the russian-nuke spaceship, does get them past the moon. It will probably begin irradiating the crew as they venture into the void, to mars because  of the crappy reactor they will be using.  That and, the unavoidable large amounts of cosmic radiation they will be exposed to, on the way to mars and there is no way to shield it! The crew, will be radiation sick, within the first quarter of the journey to mars.

      I knew a Doctor from Russia, who was a survivior of the Chazma Bay Nuclear Submarime-Reactor explosion. The Nuclear submarine, exploded in the dock. The lady is Permanently disabled. Thousands of people ruined by it, not hundreds.
      There was the Kurkst nuclear sub explosion, in the barrent sea. A recent one in 2011. Dozens more.

      The USA lies its ass off too, as we already know.  There were the 3 meltdowns associated with the experimental sodium reactor, at Santa Susana. The “Mishaps” occured between 1958 and 1971.

      People in murica are brainwashed to accept their bullshit. Areas of the western United states, are twice as irradiated, as some of the bad places in russia. There have been Multiple nuclear sub accidents, from murican nuclear subs. American nuclear sub shit dont stink, so yu don’t know about it.

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  2. Why even bother to post info here. The resident troll, goes out of its way to post corporate counter
    propaganda. There have been wildfires in California for years. Climate change is making it worse. It is the same for the intensity of hurrincanes.

    THERE WERE 3 RADIATION FALLOUT RELEASES AT SANTA SUSANA NOT 1. THEY OCCURED IN 1959, 1964, 1969

    www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20140613-column.html%3foutputType=amp


    Until 2006, the site was operated by private corporations for federal agencies — chiefly NASA. The problems there began in 1959, when a nuclear reactor partially melted down, contaminating portions of the hilltop facility and spewing radioactive gases into the atmosphere. That incident wasn't publicly disclosed until 1979. By then, more mishaps had followed, including reactor accidents in 1964 and 1969. The worst contamination is thought to be in a parcel known as Area IV, where the meltdown occurred.

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  3. Agreed,Harriet. I hope you are wise enough to take your own advise and stop commenting.

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  4. I've a relevant NOAA map, Majia, can't be attached here so will email, glad you hurried home

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