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The Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), formerly known as Rocketdyne, is a complex of industrial research and development facilities located on a 2,668-acre (1,080 ha) [1] portion of Southern California in an unincorporated area of Ventura County in the Simi Hills between Simi Valley and Los Angeles.
In 1966, the Energy Technology Engineering Center was established at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission for the development and non-nuclear testing of liquid metal reactor components. [41] The testing and development notably improved the safety and reliability of sodium pump seals.
30 December 1958: Cecil Kelley criticality accident at Los Alamos National Laboratory. [62] [70] March 1959: Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Los Angeles, California. Fire in a fuel processing facility. July 1959: Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Los Angeles, California. Partial meltdown.
The Woolsey Fire broke out near the former Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Lab, leading to concerns about toxic materials being released into the air.
The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board approves permit with greater scrutiny of the Santa Susana Field Lab site. LA water board ups monitoring under permit for Santa Susana Field Lab ...
The Santa Susana Field Laboratory site sits on the border of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Cleanup of radiological contamination of Area IV, at far left, is the responsibility of the federal ...
Partial core meltdown at Santa Susana Field Laboratory's Sodium Reactor Experiment: 0: 32: January 3, 1961: Idaho Falls, Idaho, US: Steam explosion and meltdown results in three fatalities at National Reactor Testing Station's SL-1 Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One: 3: 22: 4 July 24, 1964: Charlestown, Rhode Island, USA
1961 K-19 nuclear accident; 1959 SRE partial nuclear meltdown at Santa Susana Field Laboratory; 1958 Mailuu-Suu tailings dam failure; 1957 Kyshtym disaster; 1957 Windscale fire; 1957 Operation Plumbbob; 1954 Totskoye nuclear exercise; 1946–1954 Bikini Atoll nuclear tests; Hanford Site; Rocky Flats Plant, see also radioactive contamination ...