health studies
BOEING CORPORATION 2015: Draft RCRA Facility Investigation Data Summary found that 96 out of 100 people would get cancer if they lived on parts of Boeing’s property and ate the produce they grew at the SSFL.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 2007: An independent, federally funded study found a 60% Higher Cancer Incidence in the Community Surrounding the Rocketdyne Facility in Southern California. It was misconstrued by Boeing, as part of its lawsuit against California, forcing author Dr. Hal Morgenstern to write a letter to Senator Simitian.
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRACKING PROGRAM, 2012: California Breast Cancer Mapping Project determined East Ventura County/West San Fernando Valley had a 10-20% higher invasive breast cancer rate.
Working with a statistician, Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab’s self-reported, imputed data shows a pediatric cancer rate above the national average for several rare pediatric cancers.
UCLA, 1999: Rocketdyne Chemical Study found that Rocketdyne workers who had high hydrazine exposures were about twice as likely as other Rocketdyne employees who worked at the site to die from lung and other cancers.
UCLA 2007: Rocketdyne Workers Radiation Study studied 4,563 Rocketdyne workers. “All available evidence from this study indicates that occupational exposure to ionizing radiation among nuclear workers at Rocketdyne/AI has increased the risk of dying from cancers,” wrote Dr. Hal Morganstern, director of the UCLA study. “We found the effect of radiation exposure was six to eight times greater in our study than extrapolated from the results of the A-bomb survivors study.”
NOTE: SSFL INDependent Studies
These studies were conducted independently of Boeing, NASA, or the Department of Energy’s influence. The studies on this page were done by scientists with high ethical standards and reputations for excellence in their relative fields and were created with transparent practices and best-technology methodologies.
Despite this, the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), the SSFL’s regulating agency, has rejected these studies as they contradict the conclusions by Boeing, NASA, and the Dept. of Energy’s paid-for-science Studies. The DTSC rigidly maintains that “Contamination from the SSFL does not come offsite in amounts that could cause harm,” a conclusion that protects them from the consequences of the irrevocable damage they have caused to the environment, people, water, and the wildlife near the site.