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>> hi. my name is denise duffield. its okay, thank you. i am the mom who started the chains dot or petition that now has over 6000 signatures for the folding of the santa susana field lab. youre going to hear a lot today. weve got a lot of facts. we know the facts. we are all intelligent people here. but i think what is lacking is courage to do the right thing. and so, i wanted to bring you my daughter, my daughter is a two-time cancer survivor at nine years old. >> can you do it? woul...

Suffer from neuroblastoma did sue boeing, and it settle. and as part of that settlement, will were no longer allowed to talk to the media, or get involved. if you have a child with cancer, its very expensive. i know one mother in particular, have i talked to recently, said the family is bankrupt caring for their daughter. so i can understand, if i was one of those mothers, why they might have went with that agreement. and now, several years later, we are seeing new cases of pediatric cancers tha...

Cooling it, how does it difficulter from chernobyl? >> chernobyl was an operating reactor that suffered a criticality explosion where the reactor itself blew up. it had no containment. here we have a very large quantity of spent nuclear fuel, more than chernobyl. its -- a lot of it is outside, most of it is outside reactors. it can burn if it becomes exposes to the air. if its hot enough, fresh enough from the reactor. the amount of radio nuke collides are tremendous and it has to be kept from b...