CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 5, 2006 | Gregory W. Griggs, Times Staff Writer
After decades of questioning over the long-term health effects of a nuclear accident at an energy research lab near Simi Valley, a team of scientists today will release the results of several studies that promise some answers. The report should provide unbiased proof of the dangers the lab's neighbors faced after a partial meltdown of a test reactor in 1959 released radioactive contaminants into the atmosphere, said Dan Hirsch, co-chairman of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory Advisory Panel.
NEWS
September 12, 1997 | MACK REED and THOMAS H. MAUGH II, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Rocketdyne workers who were exposed to radiation during decades of nuclear testing at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory near Simi Valley have an increased risk of dying of cancer, according to a UCLA report released Thursday. Rocketdyne immediately criticized the report through a panel of scientists who reviewed it, and called its conclusions overly broad. "Their data doesn't support their conclusions," said Michael Ginevan, a biostatistician who reviewed the study for Rocketdyne.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 11, 1997 | MACK REED, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Neighbors of Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Laboratory sued the aerospace firm's parent company in federal court Monday, alleging that decades of nuclear and chemical research at the mountaintop complex poisoned their land and water and gave them cancer. Ten plaintiffs from Simi Valley and the San Fernando Valley filed a class-action suit against Boeing North American Inc., which in December bought the 2,668-acre research complex that its Rocketdyne division still runs.
BUSINESS
February 23, 2005 | Peter Pae, Times Staff Writer
Boeing Co. said Tuesday that it had agreed to sell its Rocketdyne rocket engine manufacturing business in San Fernando Valley to United Technologies Corp. for about $700 million in cash. The sale of storied Rocketdyne, which helped pioneer space exploration in the 1960s, was expected, and came amid Boeing's struggle to turn a profit in the space launch business. For Hartford, Conn.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 24, 1998
A federal appeals court has refused to intervene in a class-action lawsuit against Rocketdyne, which is accused of damaging neighboring properties with rocket-engine and nuclear research at its Santa Susana Field Laboratory. The failure of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to decertify a class-action suit against Boeing North American, Rocketdyne's parent company, means that lawyers can mail up to 500,000 letters notifying potential members of the class.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 25, 1998 | KATE FOLMAR, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Hoping to sway a federal judge, a group of Rocketdyne neighbors is taking a second stab at turning litigation against the aerospace giant into a class-action lawsuit. In October, U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins shot down the neighbors' first attempt, saying the scope of their lawsuit for property damage was too broad to meet the exacting demands of class-action law.