According to the L.A. Times, a nuclear accident at Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Laboratory in 1959 released nuclear emissions that 'appear to have been much greater than previously suspected and could have resulted in hundreds of cancers in surrounding communities,' a new study found.
The nuclear meltdown, which remained virtually unknown to the public until 1979, could have caused between 260 and 1,800 cases of cancer "over a period of many decades," the study concluded.
But the advisory panel that oversaw the five-year study, conducted by an independent team of scientists and health experts, said it could not offer more specifics about potential exposure to carcinogens because the Department of Energy and Rocketdyne's owner, Boeing Co., did not provide key information.
Why won't they release the information? According to The Center for Media and Democracy, Boeing "refused to provide crucial weather data to enable better modelling of where the radioactive pollution went."
Boeing claims that information is proprietary. "How can you possibly declare a trade secret which way the wind blew on a certain day?" asks Dan Hirsch, a physicist and co-chairman of the advisory panel which conducted the study...
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