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CleanUpRocketdyne.Org

Environmental Advocacy through awareness and education for the proper, responsible clean-up of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and similar sites.

Home to the third worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear work, that has largely gone unnoticed. The clean-up hasn't even begun when the accident happened in 1959. There were many accidents and many releases to the environment that were both accidental and intentional in nature. Our purpose is to find new and different ways to continue to bring the SSFL and the challenges of the clean-up to the public. By making more people aware of the issue, we will create more public outcry. Our research, which includes nearly 10,000 photographs of the site, including aerial photographs and historical photographs gathered through outreach efforts with former workers and other concerned members of the community. We now have a community of activists writing letters, speaking up at meetings, and asking hard and important questions and consider this, in part, a CleanUpRocketdyne.Org Collaboration with the community, or what we refer to as CUROC. We have travelled to Sacramento a dozen times lobbying for these efforts using our research and evidence and now, can proudly state, that we made a difference in the effort to pass SB990 which is now law in our state. SB990, which was written to guarantee the proper clean-up according to the law, must be held to the high standard it was written for. Now it's a matter of interpretation, and so we must continue to defend the law to its fruition. The clean-up according to the State of California of surficial media, will be complete in 2017 and so that is our first and most primary goal: to keep that target set properly as we move through the clean-up process.

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