LOS ANGELES - A 1959 nuclear reactor meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in eastern Ventura County may have caused hundreds of cancers in the surrounding community while chemicals from the site threaten to contaminate local ground and water, according to a report released Thursday.
The report by an independent advisory panel estimated it was likely radiation released during the meltdown caused about 260 cancers within a 60-square-mile area around the reactor. There was a slim chance the numbers could be as high as 1,800, according to the report, which relied on technical modeling rather than hard data.
The panel said the federal government and the lab's former …
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