First U.S. nuclear meltdown recalled in Chatsworth

Today is the 50th anniversary of America's first nuclear meltdown accident, which occurred at the Atomics International field laboratory in the Santa Susana Mountains.

Federal regulators and former lab workers will gather at the Aerospace Cancer Museum of Education in Chatsworth to commemorate the event. The group will provide an update of recent developments, including the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to spend $40 million in stimulus funds on a comprehensive radioactive survey of the nuclear site.

Read more about the nuclear meltdown.

-- Louis Sahagun

Comments

[Jeff Price]

Biggest Cover Up In American History, My groundwater is still contaminated. Thank you Rocketdyne (now boeing).

[Anthony Santamouro]

I was just givin this article by a friend.
I would like so much to contact, Holly Huff about my health problems that started in 1959-60, (boils all over my body)
Born in 1952 I grew up near Haskel and San Fernando Rd.
If you are able to contact her, please give her my cell ph.#
(951) 741-7887
Thanks,
Tony Santamouro