Missing Boeing records discovered
Decades after Santa Susana Field Lab neighbors first asked which way
the wind was blowing during a 1959 partial nuclear meltdown at the
site, lab officials have discovered the missing meteorological
records. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.
The newly found data are expected to be vital in helping lab watchdogs
and researchers more accurately estimate where radiation released
during the meltdown could have moved during the accident and what
communities might have been exposed.
Last year, a state-funded study determined that radiation released
during the accident could have triggered 260 cancers in the area. But
that analysis was stunted by the lack of data from the incident,
including weather information.