Melissa began a petition that now has over 740k signatures for the cleanup of SSFL. Description: In this lesson, students will learn about the history of the Santa Susana Field Lab and the nuclear meltdown that occurred there. A primitive nuclear reactor at the lab was in the throes of a meltdown. Melissa met other families at CHLA whose children also had rare cancers and learned they all lived within miles of SSFL. Rocketdynes Santa Susana Field Laboratory was on the frontlines of the Cold War. Melissa Bumstead became an “accidental activist” after her four-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of leukemia in 2014. She also leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a full cleanup of SSFL, a former nuclear and rocket testing facility near LA. (Photo: US Department of Energy). Affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War who received the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize and is a partner organization of ICAN, recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.ĭenise Duffield is Associate Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles and directs its nuclear threats program. The Santa Susana Field Laboratory in 1958, one year before it suffered a partial meltdown. He is the President of Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles ( ) and serves as the Co-Chair of the Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons of PSR. Just two years later, a meltdown occurred at a research reactor in the Santa Susana Laboratory near Los. The Santa Susana Field Laboratory outside Los Angeles had a nuclear meltdown in 1959. Who Knew The Santa Susana Field Laboratory outside Los Angeles had a nuclear meltdown in 1959. Robert Dodge, M.D., is a family physician practicing in Ventura. America’s Worst Nuclear Disaster Was in California. The meltdown was concealed from the public eye for 20 years before being uncovered and the contamination never fully eradicated.” SSFL Documentary “In the Dark of the Valley” Studies have shown that the radiation released at SSFL was 260 times greater than the radiation released at Three Mile Island… “In 1959, an unconfined partial meltdown of a sodium reactor at the Santa Susana Field Lab caused such a devastating leak, that many consider it to be the worst nuclear disaster in U.S.
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