NH #541: Santa Susana Field Lab Fallout from Radiation Study: PSR-LA's Denise Duffield, Melissa Bumstead

Santa Susana Field Lab Fallout from Woolsey Fire Study of Radioactive Releases - Melissa Bumstead (above) of Parents Against SSFL.
This Week's Featured Interviews:

• Santa Susana Field Lab - the push to clean up the 2,680 acre site continues in the wake of findings about the Woolsey fire releasing radioactive micro-particles into the surrounding Los Angeles neighborhoods.  One of the ongoing people helping to lead the fight is Denise Duffield.  She serves as Administrator for Physicians for Social Responsibility-LA’s (PSR-LA) and directs its nuclear threats program, which advocates for health protective policies related to nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.  Denise also works on environmental health and justice issues, addressing the needs of local communities who are impacted by toxic contamination and the failure of regulatory agencies to protect them. She leads PSR-LA’s efforts to ensure a full cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL).

PSR-LA’s Denise Duffield

• Melissa Bumstead lives within 3.6 miles of the Santa Susana Field Lab.  She became an "accidental activist" for the SSFL cleanup after her four year-old daughter was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of leukemia in 2014. She founded Parents Against SSFL and continues to lead community efforts for a complete clean-up of the Boeing - former Rocketdyne - site.  (Her daughter is now 11 years old and cancer-free.)

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

The United States doesn't know what to do with its own radioactive nuclear waste... so why did we agree to IMPORT NUCLEAR WASTE?  Let alone from... ESTONIA???

LINKS:

• Call the Midwife episode with strong nuclear theme (Season 10, Episode 1):
  https://www.pbs.org/video/call-the-midwife-season-10-episode-1
  (PBS link may not be available outside of U.S. The series and this episode has run in the UK and will be available on Netflix in January.)
• Nuclear power plant operators want to run for eight decades, but a federal lab in Washington state found ‘critical gaps’ in knowledge about how reactors age
• Climate Emergency Includes the Threat of ‘Nuclear Winter’
• The Push for Nukes in Space by Karl Grossman
• The nation’s last uranium mill plans to import Estonia’s radioactive waste
• Nuke disaster radiation continues to threaten traditional ways of life in northeast Japan
• Akkuyu NPP should not be allowed to start operation: In just 6 months another fire at Akkuyu NPP construction!