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In the Dark of the Valley
This official trailer gives a brief, focused overview of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory cover-up and the local mothers' campaign for accountability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdFqNOEFHxk&utm
Beads of Courage
https://youtu.be/oH8BilL6H1QThe Secret Nuclear Meltdown above Los Angeles
https://youtu.be/IKyy9_svLnw#NuclearAccidents
#LosAngeles
#SantaSusana
#children
#video
#YouTube
#trailer
#documentary -
In the Dark of the Valley
This official trailer gives a brief, focused overview of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory cover-up and the local mothers' campaign for accountability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdFqNOEFHxk&utm
Beads of Courage
https://youtu.be/oH8BilL6H1QThe Secret Nuclear Meltdown above Los Angeles
https://youtu.be/IKyy9_svLnw#NuclearAccidents
#LosAngeles
#SantaSusana
#children
#video
#YouTube
#trailer
#documentary -
In the Dark of the Valley
This official trailer gives a brief, focused overview of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory cover-up and the local mothers' campaign for accountability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdFqNOEFHxk&utm
Beads of Courage
https://youtu.be/oH8BilL6H1QThe Secret Nuclear Meltdown above Los Angeles
https://youtu.be/IKyy9_svLnw#NuclearAccidents
#LosAngeles
#SantaSusana
#children
#video
#YouTube
#trailer
#documentary -
In the Dark of the Valley
This official trailer gives a brief, focused overview of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory cover-up and the local mothers' campaign for accountability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdFqNOEFHxk&utm
Beads of Courage
https://youtu.be/oH8BilL6H1QThe Secret Nuclear Meltdown above Los Angeles
https://youtu.be/IKyy9_svLnw#NuclearAccidents
#LosAngeles
#SantaSusana
#children
#video
#YouTube
#trailer
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Real world example: Goiânia accident (September 13, 1987)
"...On September 18, Roberto sold the items to a nearby scrapyard. That night, Devair Alves Ferreira, the owner of the scrapyard, noticed the blue glow from the punctured capsule. Thinking the capsule's contents were valuable or supernatural, he immediately brought it into his house. Over the next three days, he invited friends and family to view the strange glowing powder...."
"...The day before the sale to the third scrapyard, on September 24, Ivo, Devair's brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. He spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate an egg while sitting on the floor. She was also fascinated by the powder's blue glow, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother...."
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Real world example: Goiânia accident (September 13, 1987)
"...On September 18, Roberto sold the items to a nearby scrapyard. That night, Devair Alves Ferreira, the owner of the scrapyard, noticed the blue glow from the punctured capsule. Thinking the capsule's contents were valuable or supernatural, he immediately brought it into his house. Over the next three days, he invited friends and family to view the strange glowing powder...."
"...The day before the sale to the third scrapyard, on September 24, Ivo, Devair's brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. He spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate an egg while sitting on the floor. She was also fascinated by the powder's blue glow, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother...."
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Real world example: Goiânia accident (September 13, 1987)
"...On September 18, Roberto sold the items to a nearby scrapyard. That night, Devair Alves Ferreira, the owner of the scrapyard, noticed the blue glow from the punctured capsule. Thinking the capsule's contents were valuable or supernatural, he immediately brought it into his house. Over the next three days, he invited friends and family to view the strange glowing powder...."
"...The day before the sale to the third scrapyard, on September 24, Ivo, Devair's brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. He spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate an egg while sitting on the floor. She was also fascinated by the powder's blue glow, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother...."
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Real world example: Goiânia accident (September 13, 1987)
"...On September 18, Roberto sold the items to a nearby scrapyard. That night, Devair Alves Ferreira, the owner of the scrapyard, noticed the blue glow from the punctured capsule. Thinking the capsule's contents were valuable or supernatural, he immediately brought it into his house. Over the next three days, he invited friends and family to view the strange glowing powder...."
"...The day before the sale to the third scrapyard, on September 24, Ivo, Devair's brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. He spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate an egg while sitting on the floor. She was also fascinated by the powder's blue glow, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother...."
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Ireland keeps nuclear door open as data centre energy demand surges https://www.byteseu.com/2309823/ #DataCentres #ElectricitySystem #Euronews #GovernmentSpokesperson #Ireland #MicheálMartin #Nuclear #NuclearAccidents #NuclearGeneration #NuclearPower #NuclearPowerPlants
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Meltdown! by Fred Bortz, 2017
Learn more about this massive catastrophe as Dr. Fred Bortz examines both the human tragedy and the scientific implications of the nuclear meltdown. Compare this disaster to similar nuclear events in the United States and in Ukraine, and move ahead with Dr. Bortz as he explores the global debate about the future of nuclear power and alternative sources of energy.
#books
#nonfiction
#NuclearAccidents
#NuclearPower
#Fukushima
#Japan
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Meltdown! by Fred Bortz, 2017
Learn more about this massive catastrophe as Dr. Fred Bortz examines both the human tragedy and the scientific implications of the nuclear meltdown. Compare this disaster to similar nuclear events in the United States and in Ukraine, and move ahead with Dr. Bortz as he explores the global debate about the future of nuclear power and alternative sources of energy.
#books
#nonfiction
#NuclearAccidents
#NuclearPower
#Fukushima
#Japan
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Meltdown! by Fred Bortz, 2017
Learn more about this massive catastrophe as Dr. Fred Bortz examines both the human tragedy and the scientific implications of the nuclear meltdown. Compare this disaster to similar nuclear events in the United States and in Ukraine, and move ahead with Dr. Bortz as he explores the global debate about the future of nuclear power and alternative sources of energy.
#books
#nonfiction
#NuclearAccidents
#NuclearPower
#Fukushima
#Japan
#meltdown -
Meltdown! by Fred Bortz, 2017
Learn more about this massive catastrophe as Dr. Fred Bortz examines both the human tragedy and the scientific implications of the nuclear meltdown. Compare this disaster to similar nuclear events in the United States and in Ukraine, and move ahead with Dr. Bortz as he explores the global debate about the future of nuclear power and alternative sources of energy.
#books
#nonfiction
#NuclearAccidents
#NuclearPower
#Fukushima
#Japan
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The physical danger continues to migrate. Acting as a topographical reservoir, the elevated plateau serves as the headwaters for the Los Angeles River system and the Arroyo Simi. Rainfall routinely washes residual heavy metals and radionuclides down into the biosphere. This includes passing through the Brandeis-Barton Institute, a major Jewish youth summer camp where legacy contaminants have been identified. -
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The physical danger continues to migrate. Acting as a topographical reservoir, the elevated plateau serves as the headwaters for the Los Angeles River system and the Arroyo Simi. Rainfall routinely washes residual heavy metals and radionuclides down into the biosphere. This includes passing through the Brandeis-Barton Institute, a major Jewish youth summer camp where legacy contaminants have been identified. -
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The physical danger continues to migrate. Acting as a topographical reservoir, the elevated plateau serves as the headwaters for the Los Angeles River system and the Arroyo Simi. Rainfall routinely washes residual heavy metals and radionuclides down into the biosphere. This includes passing through the Brandeis-Barton Institute, a major Jewish youth summer camp where legacy contaminants have been identified. -
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The physical danger continues to migrate. Acting as a topographical reservoir, the elevated plateau serves as the headwaters for the Los Angeles River system and the Arroyo Simi. Rainfall routinely washes residual heavy metals and radionuclides down into the biosphere. This includes passing through the Brandeis-Barton Institute, a major Jewish youth summer camp where legacy contaminants have been identified. -
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The truth finally emerged in 1979 when UCLA college students forensic-audited obscure archives and uncovered photographs of the melted fuel rods. Today, Boeing and its consultants' technical calculations dispute these high contamination claims, sparking a battle of models over the true fallout. Still, the baseline facts remain undisputed: a reactor melted, and the public was systematically lied to.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #meltdown #coverup #LA #SSFL #UCLA
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The truth finally emerged in 1979 when UCLA college students forensic-audited obscure archives and uncovered photographs of the melted fuel rods. Today, Boeing and its consultants' technical calculations dispute these high contamination claims, sparking a battle of models over the true fallout. Still, the baseline facts remain undisputed: a reactor melted, and the public was systematically lied to.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #meltdown #coverup #LA #SSFL #UCLA
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The truth finally emerged in 1979 when UCLA college students forensic-audited obscure archives and uncovered photographs of the melted fuel rods. Today, Boeing and its consultants' technical calculations dispute these high contamination claims, sparking a battle of models over the true fallout. Still, the baseline facts remain undisputed: a reactor melted, and the public was systematically lied to.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #meltdown #coverup #LA #SSFL #UCLA
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The truth finally emerged in 1979 when UCLA college students forensic-audited obscure archives and uncovered photographs of the melted fuel rods. Today, Boeing and its consultants' technical calculations dispute these high contamination claims, sparking a battle of models over the true fallout. Still, the baseline facts remain undisputed: a reactor melted, and the public was systematically lied to.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #meltdown #coverup #LA #SSFL #UCLA
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At the center of this legacy is the July 1959 Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) meltdown. When a coolant loop leaked an organic fluid into the liquid sodium streams, it baked into a thick carbon sludge that choked the reactor core. Lacking a secondary concrete containment dome, operators manually opened facility garage doors over several weeks to vent highly radioactive gases directly into prevailing valley winds. -
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At the center of this legacy is the July 1959 Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) meltdown. When a coolant loop leaked an organic fluid into the liquid sodium streams, it baked into a thick carbon sludge that choked the reactor core. Lacking a secondary concrete containment dome, operators manually opened facility garage doors over several weeks to vent highly radioactive gases directly into prevailing valley winds. -
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At the center of this legacy is the July 1959 Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) meltdown. When a coolant loop leaked an organic fluid into the liquid sodium streams, it baked into a thick carbon sludge that choked the reactor core. Lacking a secondary concrete containment dome, operators manually opened facility garage doors over several weeks to vent highly radioactive gases directly into prevailing valley winds. -
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At the center of this legacy is the July 1959 Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) meltdown. When a coolant loop leaked an organic fluid into the liquid sodium streams, it baked into a thick carbon sludge that choked the reactor core. Lacking a secondary concrete containment dome, operators manually opened facility garage doors over several weeks to vent highly radioactive gases directly into prevailing valley winds. -
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The site's culture of experimental speed left a permanent toxic footprint. Rocket engine flushing cascaded an estimated 500,000 gallons of carcinogenic trichloroethylene (TCE) into unlined ponds and fractured bedrock. Compounding this, workers bypassed disposal bottlenecks by shooting 55-gallon drums of mixed radioactive and chemical waste with rifles, sending toxic plumes directly over mushrooming downwind populations. -
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The site's culture of experimental speed left a permanent toxic footprint. Rocket engine flushing cascaded an estimated 500,000 gallons of carcinogenic trichloroethylene (TCE) into unlined ponds and fractured bedrock. Compounding this, workers bypassed disposal bottlenecks by shooting 55-gallon drums of mixed radioactive and chemical waste with rifles, sending toxic plumes directly over mushrooming downwind populations. -
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The site's culture of experimental speed left a permanent toxic footprint. Rocket engine flushing cascaded an estimated 500,000 gallons of carcinogenic trichloroethylene (TCE) into unlined ponds and fractured bedrock. Compounding this, workers bypassed disposal bottlenecks by shooting 55-gallon drums of mixed radioactive and chemical waste with rifles, sending toxic plumes directly over mushrooming downwind populations. -
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The site's culture of experimental speed left a permanent toxic footprint. Rocket engine flushing cascaded an estimated 500,000 gallons of carcinogenic trichloroethylene (TCE) into unlined ponds and fractured bedrock. Compounding this, workers bypassed disposal bottlenecks by shooting 55-gallon drums of mixed radioactive and chemical waste with rifles, sending toxic plumes directly over mushrooming downwind populations. -
A GIFT TO THE CHILDREN OF SANTA SUSANA, LA
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #meltdown #coverup #LA #SSFL #TCE #radioactivity #fallout #contamination #children #wildfires #SandyFire #activists
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A GIFT TO THE CHILDREN OF SANTA SUSANA, LA
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #meltdown #coverup #LA #SSFL #TCE #radioactivity #fallout #contamination #children #wildfires #SandyFire #activists
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A GIFT TO THE CHILDREN OF SANTA SUSANA, LA
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #meltdown #coverup #LA #SSFL #TCE #radioactivity #fallout #contamination #children #wildfires #SandyFire #activists
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A GIFT TO THE CHILDREN OF SANTA SUSANA, LA
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #meltdown #coverup #LA #SSFL #TCE #radioactivity #fallout #contamination #children #wildfires #SandyFire #activists
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In the meantime, you can watch a brief trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puxOB5BHbKE
Or a technical short:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/btnARcMFkHQ
about the Santa Barbara Field Laboratory, but best watch the full documentary In the Dark Valley (2021).
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In the meantime, you can watch a brief trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puxOB5BHbKE
Or a technical short:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/btnARcMFkHQ
about the Santa Barbara Field Laboratory, but best watch the full documentary In the Dark Valley (2021).
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In the meantime, you can watch a brief trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puxOB5BHbKE
Or a technical short:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/btnARcMFkHQ
about the Santa Barbara Field Laboratory, but best watch the full documentary In the Dark Valley (2021).
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In the meantime, you can watch a brief trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puxOB5BHbKE
Or a technical short:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/btnARcMFkHQ
about the Santa Barbara Field Laboratory, but best watch the full documentary In the Dark Valley (2021).
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This intense grassroots mobilization has fueled an incredible petition with over 600,000 signatures, demanding that the government and current site owners take real accountability and fully clean up the Santa Susana Field Laboratory once and for all.How much longer will these communities be forced to pay the price for secrets kept 60 years ago?
#TheEarthGazer #SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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This intense grassroots mobilization has fueled an incredible petition with over 600,000 signatures, demanding that the government and current site owners take real accountability and fully clean up the Santa Susana Field Laboratory once and for all.How much longer will these communities be forced to pay the price for secrets kept 60 years ago?
#TheEarthGazer #SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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This intense grassroots mobilization has fueled an incredible petition with over 600,000 signatures, demanding that the government and current site owners take real accountability and fully clean up the Santa Susana Field Laboratory once and for all.How much longer will these communities be forced to pay the price for secrets kept 60 years ago?
#TheEarthGazer #SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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This intense grassroots mobilization has fueled an incredible petition with over 600,000 signatures, demanding that the government and current site owners take real accountability and fully clean up the Santa Susana Field Laboratory once and for all.How much longer will these communities be forced to pay the price for secrets kept 60 years ago?
#TheEarthGazer #SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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These families have shared deeply moving symbols like Beads of Courage, where every single glass bead a child receives physically represents a painful medical milestone—such as enduring chemotherapy or a blood transfusion.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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These families have shared deeply moving symbols like Beads of Courage, where every single glass bead a child receives physically represents a painful medical milestone—such as enduring chemotherapy or a blood transfusion.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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These families have shared deeply moving symbols like Beads of Courage, where every single glass bead a child receives physically represents a painful medical milestone—such as enduring chemotherapy or a blood transfusion.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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These families have shared deeply moving symbols like Beads of Courage, where every single glass bead a child receives physically represents a painful medical milestone—such as enduring chemotherapy or a blood transfusion.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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The Human Cost: Beads of CourageThe response from the local communities to this invisible, multi-generational threat has been profound. Local parents, such as Melissa Bumstead, whose own daughter battled a rare leukemia, began using everyday tools like Facebook and Google Maps to map out clusters of sick children right in their own neighborhoods.
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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The Human Cost: Beads of CourageThe response from the local communities to this invisible, multi-generational threat has been profound. Local parents, such as Melissa Bumstead, whose own daughter battled a rare leukemia, began using everyday tools like Facebook and Google Maps to map out clusters of sick children right in their own neighborhoods.
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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The Human Cost: Beads of CourageThe response from the local communities to this invisible, multi-generational threat has been profound. Local parents, such as Melissa Bumstead, whose own daughter battled a rare leukemia, began using everyday tools like Facebook and Google Maps to map out clusters of sick children right in their own neighborhoods.
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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The Human Cost: Beads of CourageThe response from the local communities to this invisible, multi-generational threat has been profound. Local parents, such as Melissa Bumstead, whose own daughter battled a rare leukemia, began using everyday tools like Facebook and Google Maps to map out clusters of sick children right in their own neighborhoods.
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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Today, this legacy remains an active threat through what researchers call the "incinerator chimney effect". When a massive wildfire—such as the recent Sandy Fire—tears through the area, the intense heat vaporizes the contaminated soil and plant life.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #contamination
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Today, this legacy remains an active threat through what researchers call the "incinerator chimney effect". When a massive wildfire—such as the recent Sandy Fire—tears through the area, the intense heat vaporizes the contaminated soil and plant life.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #contamination
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Today, this legacy remains an active threat through what researchers call the "incinerator chimney effect". When a massive wildfire—such as the recent Sandy Fire—tears through the area, the intense heat vaporizes the contaminated soil and plant life.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #contamination
#radioactive #wildfires #SandyFire -
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Today, this legacy remains an active threat through what researchers call the "incinerator chimney effect". When a massive wildfire—such as the recent Sandy Fire—tears through the area, the intense heat vaporizes the contaminated soil and plant life.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #contamination
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running down intermittent streams past a children's camp (the Brandeis-Barden Institute) and directly into the headwaters of the Los Angeles River. This pulls a toxic path directly into the watersheds and residential backyards of half a million people living within just 10 miles of the site.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #contamination
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running down intermittent streams past a children's camp (the Brandeis-Barden Institute) and directly into the headwaters of the Los Angeles River. This pulls a toxic path directly into the watersheds and residential backyards of half a million people living within just 10 miles of the site.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #contamination
#radioactive #children #rivers -
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running down intermittent streams past a children's camp (the Brandeis-Barden Institute) and directly into the headwaters of the Los Angeles River. This pulls a toxic path directly into the watersheds and residential backyards of half a million people living within just 10 miles of the site.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #contamination
#radioactive #children #rivers -
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running down intermittent streams past a children's camp (the Brandeis-Barden Institute) and directly into the headwaters of the Los Angeles River. This pulls a toxic path directly into the watersheds and residential backyards of half a million people living within just 10 miles of the site.#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #contamination
#radioactive #children #rivers -
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Gravity’s Revenge & The Incinerator Chimney EffectBecause the lab sits on a mountain plateau with no physical barrier holding back the pollution, inescapable physics dictate the flow of contamination. When it rains, rainwater washes heavy metals and mixed fission products out of the saturated soil...
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #contamination #radioactive
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Gravity’s Revenge & The Incinerator Chimney EffectBecause the lab sits on a mountain plateau with no physical barrier holding back the pollution, inescapable physics dictate the flow of contamination. When it rains, rainwater washes heavy metals and mixed fission products out of the saturated soil...
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #contamination #radioactive
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Gravity’s Revenge & The Incinerator Chimney EffectBecause the lab sits on a mountain plateau with no physical barrier holding back the pollution, inescapable physics dictate the flow of contamination. When it rains, rainwater washes heavy metals and mixed fission products out of the saturated soil...
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #contamination #radioactive