History Channel - ROCKETDYNE

World's 1st nuclear meltdown in 1959 in Simi Valley, CA. Story covered by The History Channel.

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[DakiniSword]

I lived in Simi Valley from 1960 to 1970. My family's stats: Mother died of lymphoma at age 46. My father died of cancer 10 tears ago. All of my grandparents died of cancer. I was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2008, (I had no risk factors for throat cancer, never smoked, rarely drink) was treated, and so far am still cancer free. I stumbled upon this video totally by accident a few months ago. I am appalled that no one was warned, or told. Were we guinea pigs or something?

[rocketdyne]

@DakiniSword In short, yes, we were test subjects. Back when energy from nuclear power was tested, no one knew of the extent of danger.

[lightlittlebrownboy]

Rocketdyne? More like CYBER- DYNE

[cherielynnae]

@modestaduck I have a friend at UCLA right now, same situation, he started having brain seizures, and broke his neck falling from them, and he does not have epilepsy... he lived in box canyon during the same time

[loriscrazilife]

I lived in Simi Valley from 1972 to 1986. My mother has had breast cancer 3 xs, thyroid cancer and stomach cancer. My father has had thyroid cancer. My grandmother died of cancer and my uncle died of cancer. I have a non malignant mass in my thyroid. HHHHMMMM oh and yes on asthma and severe allergies all the way around. Sad because I love Simi Valley.

[MikeMandaville]

Marie Curie learned that certain rocks give off energy, and she decided to study this behavior. She named it radioactivity. She earned a couple of Nobel Prizes for her study, and then she became the first person on earth to die from radiation poisoning.

Good people of Simi Valley, Marie Curie would want you to take care of your health. And John Wayne, who also died of radiation poisoning, would want you to remind your democraticly-elected leaders who's boss. I grew up in Hawthorne. Peace

[cracknigga]

but i thought only totalitarian communist monsters kept their nuclear accidents secret? i always thought america was a safe haven of truth, freedom and law? ah now i get it: communists were evil and so all they did was evil. this was benign democratic radiation of freedom which gave you freedom tumors and freedom cancer. even if you died from it, it was okay because it was for freedom and democracy

[rocko0431]

i like racing my car on santa susana pass

[HasanAbulFez]

We have a rocketdyne site 30 miles north of my house.  They poluted the ground water soooo bad. There is still an old rocket engine and oober closed down bunkers over there.

[gregmgm06]

FIrst I've heard of the meltdown and this video.

Born in '60, I grew up in Canoga Park, at Vanowen and Platt. We would regularly play in the hills pretty close to Rocketdyne. We heard many engine tests which rattled our windows and saw the smoke rising from Rocketdyne during the engine tests. Later, in my 20's and 30's I did phone work in Rocketdyne from time to time....and now I have Thyroid cancer. There's no way to prove exactly what caused my cancer....but it's sure coincidental.

[onlyweknow2]

When I was a kid I could watch them test the rocket motors at night from my bedroom window from 1966-1971

Wonder if my dad would of bought in the area if he knew what happen at rocketdyne, I'm betting he wouldn't have, he passed away from leukemia in 1993. There's no history of leukemia in our family.