Nuclear Cleanup The Standards Conflict

Nuclear CLEANUPTHE Standards CONFLICTBYDANIEL HIRSCHPRESIDENTANDEMILY CHURG AND TONY ZEPEDARESEARCH ASSISTANTSCOMMITTEE TO BRIDGE THE GAPNOVEMBER 2004 SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM THE CITIZENS MONITORING ANDTECHNICAL ASSESSMENT FUNDiABSTRACTThe Department of Energy has recently violated a longstanding Joint DOE-EPAP olicy which commits DOE to clean up all its Nuclear facilities nationwide to the EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) Superfund (CERCLA) Standards . The focal point of this conflictbetween DOE and EPA Cleanup Standards is the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), a 2800-acre facility on the Los Angeles-Ventura County line in Southern California. Ten reactors, aplutonium fuel facility, and a hot laboratory for cutting up irradiated Nuclear fuel wereoperated at the facility, which opened in the 1940s when it was remote from populated large numbers of people live of the reactors suffered a partial meltdown in 1959; two others experienced damagein 1964 and 1969 to 80% and 35% of their fuel, respectively.

nuclear cleanup the standards conflict by daniel hirsch president and emily churg and tony zepeda research assistants committee to bridge the gap november 2004 supported by a grant from the citizens’ monitoring and technical assessment fund

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