The Nuclear Disaster Cover-Up over Los Angeles

The Santa Susana Field Laboratory (“SSFL”) is a heavily contaminated nuclear and rocket testing facility located on the boundary of Ventura and Los Angeles Counties in Southern California. Numerous spills, releases, and accidents have occurred at the site, including a famous partial nuclear meltdown in 1959. Approximately half a million people live within ten miles of SSFL. CBG has been heavily involved in efforts to ensure cleanup of the radioactive materials and chemicals that contaminate SSFL. SSFL sits atop a range of hills between the San Fernando and Simi Valleys, on the boundary between Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. The site is located about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. In November of 1957, the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE), an experimental nuclear reactor built at SSFL, was tied into an Edison substation and assisted in lighting the town of Moorpark, California. This was supposedly the first time in United States history that a nuclear reactor produced commercial electricity. About a year and a half later, however, the SRE suffered a partial nuclear meltdown, in what is one of the worst world-wide nuclear accidents in history. #nuclear #meltdown #radiation