{"id":40577,"date":"2018-11-16T08:32:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40577"},"modified":"2018-11-16T08:32:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:32:46","slug":"woolsey-fire-burns-toxic-santa-susana-reactor-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40577","title":{"rendered":"Woolsey Fire Burns Toxic Santa Susana Reactor Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woolsey Fire Burns Toxic Santa Susana Reactor Site<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo Source NASA MODIS (TERRA Satellite) | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cA common denominator, in every single nuclear accident \u2026 is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, \u2018There\u2019s no danger to the public.\u2019\u00a0They do this before they themselves know what has happened\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jacque Cousteau<\/em><\/p>\n

The Woolsey fire in California began Nov. 8 near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), site of a partial reactor meltdown, the consequences of which have never been cleaned up. The California Department of Toxic Substances Control released a statement early Nov. 9 saying its scientists \u201cdon\u2019t believe that the fire has caused any releases of hazardous materials that would pose a risk to people exposed to the smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fire\u2019s progress through to Oak Park indicates that much of the toxic site burned, according to the Los Angeles chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility which has investigated SSFL radiation risks for 30 years.<\/p>\n

Use of the phrase \u201cdon\u2019t believe\u201d [the fire caused risk] by the Dept. of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) had to stand in for a clear denial of radiation risk because none of the site\u2019s air monitors had yet been seen by the department. The following words of DTSC\u2019s Nov. 9 announcement were: \u201cThere is an air monitoring network around the perimeter of the SSFL site. As soon as access is open we will evaluate the air monitoring stations.\u201d The department seemed to be reading from a script identified by the oceanographer Jacque Cousteau who said, \u201c\u2026before specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, \u2018There\u2019s no danger to the public.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The dodgy DTSC language caused outrage and alarm among watchdog groups concerned with cleanup of the SSFL site. University of California-Los Angeles climate scientist and distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Glen MacDonald, told Democracy Now, Nov. 13: \u201cI would want to see \u2026 some monitoring of what was kicked up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Woolsey Fire Burns Toxic Santa Susana Reactor Site Photo Source NASA MODIS (TERRA Satellite) | CC BY 2.0 \u201cA common denominator, in every single nuclear accident \u2026 is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, \u2018There\u2019s no danger to the public.\u2019\u00a0They do this before they themselves know […]<\/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":[5493,12087,23013,23012,8607,22980],"class_list":["post-40577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-counterpunch","tag-john-laforge","tag-reactor-meltdown","tag-santa-susana-reactor-site","tag-wildfire","tag-woolsey-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40577","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=40577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40579,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40577\/revisions\/40579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}