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Rocketdyne Video

This SSFL Work Group video, published on Jan 26, 2019, is entitled “DOE and DTSC break SSFL cleanup agreements” and accurately explains how these federal and state departments are telling the public that they’ll leave about 98% of the radioactive and chemical goo at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. John […]

Rocketdyne Gallery 2 – Maps

[CLICK HERE for SSFL Area IV – Maps] SANTA SUSANA FIELD LABORATORY 1948 – 2019 (Click thumbnail to view entire map) [CLICK HERE for SSFL Area IV – Maps] 25 Years of Award-Winning SSFL/Rocketdyne Reporting 1998 – 2023

Rocketdyne Gallery 1

(Click thumbnail to view entire photograph) 25 Years of Award-Winning SSFL/Rocketdyne Reporting 1998 – 2023

ROCKETDYNE’S RED GLARE

By Michael Collins LA Weekly – December 9, 1998 Pulling up to Simi Valley City Hall the morning of October 21, EPA staffer Vicky Semones was counting on a quiet, efficient work meeting. Her job was to coordinate the scientists, public officials and community representatives monitoring the cleanup from decades […]

UCLA STUDY BURNS ROCKETDYNE

Cancer rates elevated among space-lab workers By Michael Collins LA Weekly – April 21, 1999 The other gooey shoe dropped last week in Simi Valley. UCLA’s School of Public Health released its long-term study of Rocketdyne employees exposed to a soup of toxic chemicals while working on the company’s giant […]

STATE STAINED IN ROCKETDYNE SCANDAL

Watchdog agency under fire for colluding with space firm By Michael Collins LA Weekly – May 5, 1999 The controversy over potential toxic contamination of workers and the community surrounding Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Simi Valley is now threatening to engulf a state agency charged with monitoring inquiries […]

ROCKETDYNE RUNAROUND

By Michael Collins LA Weekly – January 11, 2000 This week, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an unprecedented invitation to community activists to tour three former Rocketdyne nuclear buildings to observe an environmental survey for radioactive contamination. The media was invited as well to the site in the […]

THE SINS OF ROCKETDYNE

Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat – July 3, 2003 Last week’s news that the toxic chemical perchlorate was found gurgling from a groundwater well, nearly a mile outside the northern border of the Rocketdyne facility, shocked many Simi and San Fernando valley residents. But former Rocketdyne worker Lynwood Sibley was hardly surprised. […]

BETWEEN ROCKETDYNE AND A HARD PLACE

Ventura County imposes testing for development within two miles of Rocketdyne By Michael Collins Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat – August 12, 2004 The battle over managing toxics at Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory took a historic turn last week with a victory for environmentalists seeking to protect future neighbors of the […]

CLEANING UP ROCKETDYNE

Citizen-inspired remediation starts at lab-adjacent Sage Ranch By Michael Collins Ventura County Reporter – November 21, 2007 The Boeing workers in the otherworldly suits looked out of place trudging through the dry creek bed that separates Sage Ranch Park and the Santa Susana Field Laboratory Nov. 20. Outfitted in head-to-toe […]

ROCKETDYNE RANCH

The battle over the massive Ahmanson Ranch housing development heats up amid growing concerns about possible water and soil contamination from nearby Rocketdyne. By Michael Collins Ventura County Reporter – December 12, 2002 July 1959. Eastern Ventura County. Simi Valley folks squirmed uncomfortably in their chairs as they watched their flickering […]

Santa Susana Field Laboratory (Rocketdyne) Workgroup Meeting – October 18, 2007

The Workgroup meeting is held quarterly at the Simi Valley Cultural Center. The discussion topics were the status of State Senate Bill 990 sponsored by Sen. Sheila Kuehl (D-Los Angeles) and signed into law by Governor Schwarzenneger October 12. “Pay Dirt” explored this issue. This meeting, partially covered in “Dirty […]

Rocketdyne Gallery

Boeing SSFL Bus Tour Demonstration August 6 2016 This demonstration by the Rocketdyne Cleanup Coalition at the entrance to Boeing’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory was to protest the use of the still-contaminated site for recreation before it is totally cleaned up. The protest was larger than the last one there […]