Residents Closest to a Former Nuclear Meltdown Site Report Higher Rates of Chronic Illness

The Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Northwestern Los Angeles was a decades-old testing facility home to rocket tests and nuclear reactors.

The site suffered a partial nuclear meltdown in 1959.

All these decades later, a new study suggests that people living near this facility report more chronic health problems, though a definitive link has not […]

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