HAHN CALLS FOR DUMPING PROBE.Byline: Erik N. Nelson Staff Writer Mayor James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California called on Friday for an investigation into years of dumping of low-level radioactive waste Noun 1. low-level radioactive waste - (medicine) radioactive waste consisting of objects that have been briefly exposed to radioactivity (as in certain medical tests) from Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Santa Susana can refer to several places:
The mayor and City Council President Alex Padilla Alex Padilla is a politician in California. He was elected as the State Senator for the 20th District of California in November 2006 and was inaugurated in early December. In order to enter the Senate he had to resign as Councilman for the 7th District on the Los Angeles City reacted swiftly to a report in Friday's Daily News about the dumping, which was approved by the state Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
The mayor directed the city's Department of Environmental Affairs to review the records of the landfill and its operator, Waste Management Inc. ``If the operator has compromised the safety of the people who live and work in the Sun Valley community, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,'' Hahn wrote in a letter to Detrich Allen, general manger of the city's Environmental Affairs Department. Waste Management representatives, who have said repeatedly that they were unaware of the radioactive shipments, said they welcomed the inquiry. ``Anything that results in better safeguards for the community, we'll totally cooperate with that,'' said Doug Corcoran, district manager for Waste Management. Boeing Rocketdyne representatives did not return calls. On Thursday, the company noted that the shipments were permitted by both state and federal regulations. ``This is material that was released because it was clean enough by established standards as not being a danger to public health,'' said Boeing Rocketdyne spokesman Dan Beck. ``We feel that (the standards) are based on good science.'' Dan Hirsch of the anti-nuclear group Committee to Bridge the Gap said the landfill operator had no way of knowing whether the shipments were contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. because Rocketdyne was not required by the U.S. Department of Energy, which is supervising the cleanup, to label the shipments as radioactive. ``The landfill can't even protect its own employees because they don't even know this stuff is radioactive,'' said Hirsch, who blamed state health officials. State health officials maintain that standards have actually been strengthened while keeping in line with federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an independent U.S. government commission, created by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and charged with licensing and regulating civilian use of nuclear energy to protect the public and the environment. standards. Hirsch said he is awaiting a court decision in Sacramento on his lawsuit challenging the department's policy on radioactive waste dumping. |
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