NH #745: Nuclear Funeral for LA’s Santa Susana Field Lab Radiation Clean-up + Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Nightmare Continues
Tombstone for Protest “Funeral” for Santa Susana Field Lab clean-up.
(Photo Credit, Melissa Bumstead)
Keystone (cover) photo credit: Sean Muniz via Snappr
This Week’s Featured Interview:
The long-promised clean-up of radioactive Santa Susana Field Lab site near downtown Los Angeles is being killed by Boeing & CA’s Department of Toxic Substances Control. Mothers from Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab hold a funeral for their clean-up expectations, voice anger and disappointment.
We talked with Parents Against SSFL founder and co-Director Melissa Bumstead, and co-Director Jeni Knack on Friday, October 3, 2025.
Funeral for soon-to-be-killed clean-uo agreement for the Santa Susana Field Lab. Here, Parents Against SSFL gather to mourn outside the headquarters of the “killer,” Boeing.
NOTE: Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) LIES when it says “there’s no possibility for off-site migration of radioactive particles” when we already know, through the citizen science testing in the wake of the 2018 Wolsey fire, that there was verifiable migration of radioactive particles to as far as 9 miles away from the site, in Sherman Oaks. Check out this report from Nuclear Hotseat #541, November 3, 2021.
Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter:
High tensions continue at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, still in long power outage.
NOTE: As of this posting on October 8, 2025, Zaporizhzhia’s six nuclear reactors are still without external power. One back-up generator is already out of operation.
LINK to Linda’s story with more information on Beyond Nuclear International.
The Nuclear Resister – Jack Cohen-Joppa
Before the U.S. stopped underground nuclear testing in 1992, activists were hiking into ground zero at the Nevada Test Site, forcing expensive delays and arrests while magnifying public support for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
LINKS:
- Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is launching a new training program for health professionals interested in learning about the health impacts of nuclear weapons and radiation. This eleven-week online course will bring together leading experts, frontline community voices, and health advocates to explore the medical, environmental, and social consequences of nuclear weapons production, testing, and military use, plus health risks related to nuclear energy. Participants will also develop advocacy and communications skills to bring the health perspective into policy debates, media conversations, and community action.
LINK to register – fees on a sliding scale, some scholarships available. - Democrats alarmed as Trump eyes weapons material to fuel nuclear reactors.
- From Zaporizhzhiato Natan,nuclear piracy is equally dangerous – and illegal
- The “Golden Age of Nuclear” is all a veneer
- U.S. to gift Pu-239 to private nuclear industry
- The dangerous new Washington consensus for more nuclear weapons
- It’s past time to start protecting US nuclear power reactors from drones
