{"id":12786,"date":"2015-09-30T05:46:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T10:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12786"},"modified":"2015-09-30T05:46:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T10:46:01","slug":"the-worst-nuclear-disaster-in-us-history-that-youve-never-heard-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12786","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Nuclear Disaster in US History That You\u2019ve Never Heard About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/the-worst-nuclear-disaster-in-us-history-that-youve-never-heard-about\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Worst Nuclear Disaster in US History That You\u2019ve Never Heard About<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The United States government deliberately hid \u201c<i>the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history<\/i>,\u201d according to experts and an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data.nbcstations.com\/national\/KNBC\/la-nuclear-secret\/\" target=\"_blank\">in-depth investigation<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/investigations\/LA-Nuclear-Secret-Part-2-328640391.html\" target=\"_blank\">NBC4<\/a>\u00a0Southern California. Whistleblowers have also come forward to expose the little-known catastrophe, which occurred north of Los Angeles in 1959 and leaked over 300 times the allowable amount of radiation into surrounding neighborhoods. That contamination is now linked to up to a 60% increase in cancer in the area, but the government still refuses to acknowledge its colossal mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing tragedy was driven by America\u2019s darkest demons, from dogmatic militarism to aggressive corporatism, and ongoing government and corporate efforts to cover-up the disaster are nothing short of staggering.<\/p>\n<p>In 1947 \u2014 two years after the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Japan \u2014 the North American Aviation corporation opened a 2,800 acre nuclear test site in Ventura County, just miles from the San Fernando and Simi Valleys \u2014 two adjacent valleys located north and northwest of the city of Los Angeles. North American Aviation\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerospacelegacyfoundation.com\/page13.html\" target=\"_blank\">amassed power during World War II<\/a>, when it produced more aircraft than any other company and flexed its muscles as an early and powerful player in America\u2019s emerging military-industrial complex. One of its expansions came in the form of building the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), where researchers would perform top-secret nuclear tests involving rocket engineering, missiles, and nuclear energy and power.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cThe Worst Nuclear Disaster in U.S. History\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For twelve years, things ran smoothly, but on July 1, high levels of radiation leaked from the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE). Workers initiated a contamination cleanup and started and stopped the reactor for two weeks. On July 13, however, the situation grew far more dire: a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simivalleyacorn.com\/news\/2009-07-24\/front_page\/004.html\" target=\"_blank\">power surge occurred in one of the nuclear reactors<\/a>\u00a0and employees were unable to shut it down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Worst Nuclear Disaster in US History That You\u2019ve Never Heard About The United States government deliberately hid \u201cthe worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history,\u201d according to experts and an\u00a0in-depth investigation\u00a0by\u00a0NBC4\u00a0Southern California. Whistleblowers have also come forward to expose the little-known catastrophe, which occurred north of Los Angeles in 1959 and leaked over 300 times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8350,101,9396,9398,9395,580,9397,827],"class_list":["post-12786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-anti-media","tag-california","tag-nbc4","tag-north-american-aviation","tag-nuclear-disaster","tag-nuclear-radiation","tag-sodium-reactor","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12787,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786\/revisions\/12787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}