[CPEO-MEF] "Research confirms IAAP dangers"

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Research confirms IAAP dangers
By Dennis J. Carroll
The Hawk Eye 

• Team finds workers were exposed to a variety of hazards. 
Findings by a University of Iowa health team support Middletown munition
workers' claims that they were exposed to a wide variety of dangerous materials
that may have caused long-term illnesses and even deaths. 

The team, led by Dr. Laurence Fuortes of the U of I College of Public Health,
has issued its first-year report detailing the working conditions and the
hazardous materials often encountered by hundreds, if not thousands, of workers
at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant. 

The Atomic Energy Commission assembled, test-fired and in later years,
disassembled nuclear weapons and their components at IAAP from the late 1940s
to the mid-1970s.

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http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln10069.html

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