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Santa Susana Field Laboratory location (yellow star) on the border of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, Southern California.
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The Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) was a nuclear reactor development, rocket, and missile testing facility built ~48 km (30 miles) northwest of downtown Los Angeles in Simi Valley, CA. For two weeks in July of 1959, highly radioactive material was potentially emitted into the atmosphere following a secret nuclear incident. The partial meltdow...
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... several safety factors, it is speculated that the AEC (a division of North American Aviation), the predecessor of Rocketdyne, picked their second-lowest choice for shorter commute times between SSFL and other local universities participating in research ( Wing et al., 2006;Rucker, 2009). Thus, the 2268-acre SSFL was built about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles atop the Simi Hills, about 1.4 miles (2.3 km) from the nearest city, Simi Valley (Figure 1) (Wing et al., 2006;Vitkus, 2008;Rucker, 2009;Weitzberg, 2014). The SSFL facility is divided into four areas (Area I -IV), with the nuclear research being conducted at Area IV. ...