  
"I Am Become Death,
Destroyer Of Worlds"
Dr. J.Robert Oppenheimer's remarks at first testing of atomic bomb, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 16 July, 1945
Dr. Oppenheimer's Remarks from 'The Bhagavid Gita; As It Is', Reported by His Brother, Frank Oppenheimer.
Rocketdyne/Boeing *Hotsheets Contamination Text Below Hot Links
Madeline Felkins *Hotsheets Copyright Madeline Felkins 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 All Rights
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Friendly Fallout (CBS NEWS Special Assignment Part II)
Nuclear Energy (The Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Fuels and Wastes)
The original, experimental, nuclear facilities on site at Rocketdyne, were in fact a nuclear power plant:
The nuclear plant provided electrical power for thousands of homes.
One thousand megawatts provides power to 1.1 million homes. Each one of the nuclear reactors at Rocketdyne
provided one megawatt of power with the exception of the sodium reactor (SRE) which provided 20 megawatts of power;
enough power to provide electricity for thousands of homes in an open field lab with no containment of resultant
radiation to the area.
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The amount of toxic radioactivity and fallout released to the area from nuclear and rocket/missile fuels
remains unknown as Rocketdyne remained unmonitored for over fifty years. Record keeping of many
of the rocket/missile testing and use of carcinogenic fuels do not exist.
Tests were conducted for the ARMY and AIR FORCE by Rocketdyne for such missiles as Redstone, Minuteman, and Peacekeeper.
These missiles are nuclear missiles and are not part of the space program. They are in fact, thermo-nuclear weapons
which are integral to Missilier activities.
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Minuteman missiles contain three cylinders, and each cylinder contains one thermo-nuclear warhead, totalling three thermo-nuclear
warheads for each Minuteman. The Peacekeeper missile is also known as The One Hundred City Bomb: Peacekeepers contain
ten cylinders, each of which contains ten thermo-nuclear warheads totalling one hundred thermo-nuclear weapons, thus
the named identity of One Hundred City Bomb.
Much fuel was used during the testing of these missile engines which contributed multiple carcinogens
to the air, water, and soil in the contaminated area, consisting of an open field lab
and surrounding hills.
More than one million gallons of trichloroethylene ,(TCE), was used to degrease and clean engines and parts ecetera at
the Rocketdyne Field Lab,(SSFL), for 30 years, (1954-1983). Engines were flushed with TCE and more than one half of one million gallons
of trichloroethylene seeped from the soil to the groundwater beneath the lab, and the Agency For Toxic Disease Registry,(ATSDR), has expressed concern
regarding potential deep fracture flow of this highly toxic contaminant discovered at the groundwater level which the agency considers a greater danger than perchlorate because it sticks to soil particles, moves more slowly through fracture spaces, and remains in sandstone. (One cup of TCE equals six million gallons of contaminated water.
(One gallon of trichloroethylene contaminates more than 96 million gallons of water,
multiplied by a minimum of 500,000 gallons of TCE, as more than one million gallons of trichloroethylene were used during the 30 year period, begining 1954 throughout 1983.
Rocketdyne officials state that half a million gallons of the solvent were lost to the soil during the flushing process.
Studies have shown that trichloroethylene causes brain and liver cancers and brain and liver disease as well as nerve, kidney, heart, and immune system damage.
TCE can cause coma, death, and impair and damage fetal developement.
Due to the fact that Rocketdyne rountinely used TCE to flush engines and test stands, the toxins washed into soil and groundwater, consequently, the State Of California
water regulators required SSFL to recycle it in 1961.
Billions of gallons of water contaminated by TCE and other contaminants and radionuclides, must be pumped and treated at the Rocketdyne SSFL during it's cleanup
which will continue beyond the year 2006, according to Boeing spokesman Dan Beck.
Water from one of the holding ponds at the Santa Susana Field Lab was used to extinguish the Bell Canyon, Parker, Ahmanson, and Sage ranches, 11 June, 2000.
What the contamination level of this water that was used during the fire
remains unknown.
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