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Santa susana reactor meltdown
Santa susana reactor meltdown











Michael was also key to Bridge the Gap uncovering safety and security problems at the UCLA These revelations contributed to a decade’s worth of work byīridge the Gap to try to stop the use of nuclear power in orbit, particularly for Reagan’s “Star One burned up in theĪtmosphere and spread its plutonium worldwide the other fell back in the LA area, spurring aįrantic search to try to locate it. Radioactive sources launched from Vandenberg that failed to reach orbit. Michael also helped uncover the troubled history of space nuclear power, including two The London Dumping Convention banning the practice of dumping radioactive waste in the Michael’s research contributed significantly to Showing the dumpsites Michael had uncovered. Over Michael’s ocean dumping documents, resulting in a major article and an interactive map Michael’s work on the ocean dumping issue formed the basis for our Congressional testimony.ĭecades later, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal spent several days at Bridge the Gap poring Them-the EPA wrote to us asking for help in locating their missing radioactive waste dumps! The amount of radioactive waste dumped at each. He revealed their precise longitude and latitude and Skills, Michael soon identified the locations of fifty dumpsites for radioactive waste off the EastĪnd West Coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico. Using FOIA requests and his extraordinary research The community’s gratitude for what he had done was palpable. His speech was very moving as it detailed how he brought this story to light. Nuclear accident that the public would never have known about, had Michael not disclosed it

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On the 60th anniversary of the partial meltdown, Michael spoke at a commemoration of the The struggle to clean up the site continues to this day.

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The revelations eventually resulted in the closure of the nuclear testing site (there hadīeen nine other reactors at the site over time, at least three others of which also sufferedĪccidents). Meltdown had occurred in the LA area and, until his disclosures, had been kept secret for twenty Of Information Act (FOIA) requests, was able to bring to the news media evidence that a partial He began digging in technical archives and, with the aid of Freedom

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“incident” that had occurred at the Atomics International facility, now known as the Santa Physicist we had just received in the CBG office that included an oblique reference to a nuclear ( Continue reading here)Īfter the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, Michael came across a letter from a Soul, and he will be missed more than words can express. Was the best researcher and investigative journalist we have ever met, and a gentle and caring Most important nuclear hazards in the country, which contributed to their elimination. On September 7, 2020, Michael Rose, a dear friend and key Bridge the Gap figure for 45 years,ĭied of complications from a bone marrow transplant for leukemia.













Santa susana reactor meltdown