Cleanup continues 52 yrs after partial meltdown in Los Angeles

Cleanup continues 52 yrs after partial meltdown in Los Angeles

SIMI VALLEY, United States - Contractors of the Environmental Protection Agency collect soil samples at the former site of Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the suburbs of Los Angeles on June 20, 2011. An experimental nuclear reactor at the lab that was active from the late 1940s to early 1980s experienced a partial meltdown in July 1959. Analysis of the soil will show how much radioactive material remains.

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