SENATOR SEEKS LIST OF RADIATION HAULS.

Byline: Lisa Mascaro Staff Writer

U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer called Thursday on the Department of Energy to provide the city of Los Angeles with a complete list of all radioactive waste shipments from Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Lab.

Earlier this month, the Daily News disclosed that low-level nuclear waste from the field lab has been sent to the Bradley Landfill in Sun Valley for much of the past decade.

The California Democrat's letter to federal Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham comes as the city has asked for an investigation into the extent of dumping at the local landfill and any possible health hazards.

``I am seriously concerned if radioactive waste has been, or is being, disposed of in non-Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed facilities,'' the senator wrote.

Boxer asked for a complete list of all radioactive waste shipments from the site, along with a report of the shipments' contents and the location to which they were sent.

She asked that the report include information about all waste with radioactive contamination measurable above background levels.

Authorities have not determined how much waste from the lab may have been shipped to the Bradley Landfill.

Rocketdyne officials have said the waste would have been considered clean enough under various regulations to go to the local landfill rather than nuclear waste handling facility.

The site in the Simi Hills conducted nuclear energy research for decades before those operations were shut down in the late 1980s. A federally funded cleanup of the site is under way.

``The public continues to demand that the site be cleaned up to the highest standards and that radioactive materials from the site be shipped to facilities designed to accept and safely store radioactive waste - including so-called 'low-level' radioactive waste,'' Boxer wrote.