Covered up for decades, the partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor near Los Angeles in 1959 has had devastating consequences for families living nearby.
The world knows these names all too well because of accidents there: complete or partial meltdowns of nuclear reactors that released massive amounts of cancer-causingThe Santa Susana Field Lab is far less well-known, but no less infamous for what took place at this former rocket engine and nuclear energy test site just 28 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
Six decades later, hundreds of potentially carcinogenic chemicals remain in the surrounding environment. And local children are being diagnosed with rare cancers at a rate that far outpaces what experts would predict.According to John Pace, then an employee at SSFL, the accident was covered up.
North American Aviation later became part of Rockwell International, which in turn sold its aerospace and defense business units to the Boeing Company in 1996. Boeing, now in charge of the site and the cleanup efforts, is doing everything in its power to shirk or diminish its responsibility, Hirsch and other critics say.Today, more than 150,000 people live within 5 miles of SSFL, and more than half a million live within 10 miles.
On her street alone, Bumstead discovered three cases of pediatric cancer, including two children in adjacent homes who had the same rare brain tumor as Hazel Hammersley.,"I started to panic because I knew that childhood cancer is extremely rare. There’s only 15,000 new cases every year out of 72 million children in America. So, the chance of knowing your neighbors, especially at an internationally renowned hospital like Children’s Hospital Los Angeles -- we knew something wasn’t right.
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