Information Regarding 12214 Lakewood Blvd., Downey, California, The Former NASA Industrial Facility renamed Downey Studios, Downey Landing and Kaiser Downey

Time Line of events at the Downey Property and Facility

General Accounting Office - June 1997 - Report to Congressional Requesters page 6

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program
http://www.hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/fwsp/advocacy/faclist/showfacility.cfm

Information on the Downey Facility site that Kaiser is now putting patients on

News Articles relating to Downey Facility

Here is a good timelime of how the Downey property was used by the Aerospace Industry.
http://www.aerospacelegacyfoundation.org/page7.html

Radiation Survey of the Downey Facility, RS-00019, The Boeing Company, Canoga Park, California, May 4 2001.

http://www.etec.energy.gov/Reading-Room/Downey.html

Relevant to this issue - Companies that operated on the Downey Facility

Information on Atomics Internation at Downey Facility

North American Aviation

Rockwell

General Dynamics Ordnance
and Tactical Systems

Photograph out of Science Newsletter, August 23, 1952 showing what the first reactor looked like

Photograph of the core component being tested also from Science Newsletter - January 16, 1954

NASA Industrial Plant, Cryogenic Test Lab-Hazardous Storage

NASA Industrial Plant, Materials Test Lab

NASA Industrial Plant, Hazardous Materials Storage

NASA Industrial Plant, Pyrotechnic Test Lab

NASA Industrial Plant, Propellent Test Laboratory

IRG set out to acquire the “impaired properties” of their friends in the military industrial complex with plans
to turn them into profit making enterprises at contaminated Air Force-related sites in Denver and elsewhere around the country, all posing looming environmental health threats and costly clean-ups. Sounds like liability laundering? IRG calls it “risk management,”
http://www.rmpjc.org/lowryvista

Some article citations at the Downey Facility are available for public reading at the Energy Citations Database at:http://www.osti.gov/energycitations

Environmental cleanup costs: NASA is making progress in identifying contamination but more effort is needed.
Source: General Accounting Office - June 1997 - Report to Congressional Requesters

Page 50
We recommended identifying infrastructure changes and associated cost impact, such as for changes planned at the Downey facility. ...

http://tinyurl.com/2cqewt

"Substantial external expos "Substantial external exposures to radiation also occurred early in the 1950s at the NAA Downey plant, where California's first nuclear reactor was designed, constructed, and operated." Source - Epidemiologic Study to Determine Possible Adverse Effects to Rocketdyne/Atomics International Workers from Exposure to Ionizing Radiation - June 1997

http://www.etec.energy.gov/library/D&D_page/RS-00019_(Downey).pdf