25 Years of Award-Winning SSFL/Rocketdyne Reporting 1998 – 2023

2000-2024 Aerojet Chino Hills Investigation Main Page 2016 EnviroReporter.com comments on Aerojet Rocketdyne Chino Hills cleanup Read EnviroReporter.com’s May 1, 2009 comments to DTSC on the OB/OD closure here. (Click thumbnail to view entire diagram) 2000-2024 Aerojet Chino Hills Investigation Main Page

2000-2024 Aerojet Chino Hills Investigation Main Page 2016 EnviroReporter.com comments on Aerojet Rocketdyne Chino Hills cleanup Read EnviroReporter.com’s May 1, 2009 comments to DTSC on the OB/OD closure here. (Click thumbnail to view entire image) 2000-2024 Aerojet Chino Hills Investigation Main Page

2000-2024 Aerojet Chino Hills Investigation Main Page 2016 EnviroReporter.com comments on Aerojet Rocketdyne Chino Hills cleanup Read EnviroReporter.com’s May 1, 2009 comments to DTSC on the OB/OD closure here. (Click thumbnail to view entire photograph) 2000-2024 Aerojet Chino Hills Investigation Main Page

2000-2024 Aerojet Chino Hills Investigation Main Page In March 2009, the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, or DTSC, invited the public to a community meeting about the closure of Aerojet’s Open Burn/Open Unit detonation area. The cleanup of this 14-acre site yielded “[O]ver 260,000 cubic yards of soil were […]

KB Home promises mass grading of Runkle Canyon By Michael Collins Ventura County Reporter – April 16, 2009 Leave it to Simi Valley’s Radiation Rangers to uncover more than just contamination in Runkle Canyon, where KB Home hopes to build 465 homes in the shadow of radioactive Rocketdyne. The citizens […]

City planners make a slick zone change for easy building on toxic lands By Michael Collins LA Weekly – March 5, 2009 West Hills resident Bonnie Klea is vivacious and no-nonsense. She won a battle over a rare bladder cancer diagnosed in 1995, and has long suspected the toxins that […]

The Sodium Reactor Experiment, or SRE, was the first nuclear reactor in this country to supply commercially-available electricity. It powered the lights for the-then tiny town of Moorpark in Ventura County, California, population 1,200. The reactor is best known for suffering the worst meltdown in American history, releasing hundreds of […]

EnviroReporter.com wrote about the SNAP reactor’s two partial meltdowns in a September 23, 2004 Ventura County Reporter article entitled “In Hot Water – More good news about contamination from your friends at Rocketdyne,” where it was noted: “At the meeting last week, Rocketdyne divulged that two new wells had high […]

(Click thumbnail to view entire photograph) “The Radiation Measurements Facility (Building 4029) was used between 1959 and 1974 for the storage and use of radioactive sources to calibrate radiation detection instruments for the SRE and other reactor tests,” according to the DOE. “In March, 1964, a radium source was dropped […]

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(Click thumbnail to view entire photograph) Building 4028 was constructed in 1960 to perform tests on space reactor shields,” according to the Department of Energy. “The original reactor was the Shield Test Reactor, a 50 kW reactor that operated in a pool of water from 1961 to 1964. The reactor […]

(Click thumbnail to view entire photograph) “The RMHF was constructed in 1959 and consists of a group of ten buildings which were built to safely handle new and irradiated nuclear fuel,” says the Department of Energy. “RMHF was later used to support the remediation activities and for temporary storage of […]

(Click thumbnail to view entire photograph) “During reactor test operations, it was often necessary to examine reactor fuel assemblies and other test specimens to determine how they were performing,” according to the Department of Energy. “This involved handling and examining highly radioactive items. These operations were done remotely in the […]

(Click thumbnail to view entire photograph) “From 1957 through 1964, Building 4003 was used to assemble fuel for the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE),” according to the Department of Energy. “In Building 4003, uranium and thorium metal slugs were loaded into metal tubes, the remaining tube space was filled with sodium, […]

In Area II of SSFL is the Delta site, first constructed in 1957 for Thor engine testing and later modified for the Lance J-2 programs, including altitude testing. The area has also been used for the loading of propellant for Peacekeeper Stage IV. The DELTA 1 and 2 test stands […]