Current Studies

Click here to read the Panel’s report, summarizing the findings of the new studies and putting them in context:

Report of the Panel

Click on the links to read the individual scientific consultants’ studies and the community members’ essay:

An Assessment of Potential Pathways for Release of Gaseous Radioactivity Following Fuel Damage During Run 14 at the Sodium Reactor Experiment
BY DAVID A. LOCHBAUM

Feasibility of Developing Exposure Markers for use in Epidemiologic Studies of Radioactive Emissions from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory
BY JAN BEYEA, PH.D.

Geologic Features and their Potential Effects on Contaminant Migration, Santa Susana Field Laboratory
BY HOWARD WILSHIRE, PH.D.

An Analysis of the Design and Performance of the Clay Cap Used to Control Groundwater Recharge into the Fractured Bedrock Beneath the Former Sodium Burn Pit (FSDF) at the Boeing-Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory
BY WILLIAM BIANCHI, PH.D.

Migration of SSFL Perchlorate Contamination Offsite
BY ALI TABIDIAN, PH.D.

Loss of Innocence
BY DAWN KOWALSKI, HOLLY HUFF, MARIE MASON, AND BARBARA JOHNSON