Studies

FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION, 2021: Radioactive Microparticles related to the Woolsey Fire in Simi Valley found radioactive contamination in soil and ash samples, as far away as Thousand Oaks.

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 at the SSFL.

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2014: Potential for Offsite Exposures Presentation Shows areas surrounding the lab that are at high-risk area from SSFL contamination.

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CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRACKING PROGRAM, 2012: California Breast Cancer Mapping Project

U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, 2012: EPA Radiological Survey, EPA Radiological Background Study and accompanying statistical appendix found 291 soil samples with Cesium-137 contamination, at levels up to 1,000 times background, 153 samples had strontium-90, at levels up to 284 times background.

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.

U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, 2007: Preliminary Assessment – Site Inspection Report is an excellent primer on the pollution problems of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. “Multiple operations at the SSFL over the last six decades have resulted in the contamination of surface and subsurface environmental media by various hazardous substances,” the report notes.

MWH, 2007: Work Plan Phase 2 Groundwater Site Conceptual Model for the Responsible Parties Boeing, NASA and the DOE presents an approach for obtaining field data to be used in evaluating the contamination plume attenuation aspects of the groundwater site conceptual model.

COMMITTEE TO BRIDGE THE GAP, 2006: Radioactive Contamination of Water at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory zeroes in on radioactive tritium, or “heavy water,” which moves through water faster than any other radionuclide and can’t be filtered out.

DAVID A. LOCHBAUM 2006: An Assessment of Potential Pathways for Release of Gaseous Radioactivity Following Fuel Damage During Run 14 at the Sodium Reactor Experiment.

JAN BEYEA, PH.D. 2006: Feasibility of Developing Exposure Markers for use in Epidemiologic Studies of Radioactive Emissions from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory

HOWARD WILSHIRE, PH.D. 2006: Geologic Features and their Potential Effects on Contaminant Migration, Santa Susana Field Laboratory

WILLIAM BIANCHI, PH.D. 2006: An Analysis of the Design and Performance of the Clay Cap Used to Control Groundwater Recharge into the Fractured Bedrock Beneath the Former Sodium Burn Pit (FSDF) at the Boeing-Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory

ALI TABIDIAN, PH.D. 2006: Migration of SSFL Perchlorate Contamination Offsite

UCLA, 2006: Potential for Offsite Exposures Associated with Santa Susana Field Laboratory studied the potential exposure pathways investigated how contaminants might migrate from the Santa Susana Field laboratory to nearby communities. The study was headed by Dr. Yoram Cohen, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the UCLA Center for Environmental Risk Reduction.

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.

VENTURA COUNTY SUPERVISOR LINDA PARKS, 2004: Two Mile Testing Requirement proposed to require developments located within a 2-mile radius of a present or former rocket test site to perform soil and water tests for perchlorate and trichloroethylene (TCE), among other contaminants and substances.

UCLA, 1997: Rocketdyne Radiation Study, costing taxpayers $1.6 million dollars, studied to determine the health effects on 4,563 Rocketdyne workers. “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.”

VENTURA COUNTY AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT, 1993-1994: VCAPCD Permit Emissions Data shows the chemicals Rocketdyne was allowed to burn up at the lab and how much.

SSFL ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY’S N. S. FUKIKAWA, 1981: SSFL Historical Volume – Area 1 Burn Pit, a 65-page report, among other things, shows exactly where this burn pit was: right next to a drainage channel that leads eventually to the Los Angeles River.