NH #512: LA’s Deadly Nuclear Nightmare Film: “Cancer Moves Faster than Bureaucracy” – Santa Susana Field Lab Documentary

LA's Deadly Nuclear Nightmare: Santa Susana Field Labs
New documentary tells story of how Melissa Bumstead (above with daughter Grace Bumstead) came to spearhead the drive to clean up the radioactive, toxic site
located just 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles.

This Week's Featured Interview:

• LA's Deadly Nuclear Nightmare - Simi Valley mother Melissa Bumstead only found out about the toxic, radioactively contaminated Santa Susan Field Lab - located less than three miles from her home - while her daughter was being treated for neuroblastoma - a rare cancer.  Her story, the history of the site, the litany of official lies that has tried to cover it up, and the decades of fightback to force a full clean-up is the subject of a new documentary, In the Dark of the Valley.  We interviewed Melissa and the film's producer, Derek Smith on April 9, 2021.

LINKS mentioned in the interview:

• To get tickets to In the Dark of the Valley (good until April 20, 2021, at the Cleveland Film Festival.  INTERNATIONAL LISTENERS, PLEASE NOTE:  Only US access from the streaming platform.  When an International link becomes available, we'll let you know.)
  
• Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL)  Includes ways to get involved, an events calendar, updates, research links, and more.
• PETITION FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE CLEANUP OF THE SSFL  Join more than 730,000 people who have already signed!
  
• Denise Duffield,  Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles
• Dan Hirsch, Committee to Bridge the Gap

LA’s Deadly Nuclear Nightmare - Melssa Bumstead testifying before
CA State Water Board, illustrating her daughter's cancer treatments.
Each bead in the yards-long "necklace" equals one medical treatment.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

Gigayacht floating science lab!  All Green Technology!  Except... you guessed it...