[CPEO-MEF] Hanford downwinders

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Downwinders' court win seen as 'great victory'

Man planning a suit is glad health damage is recognized

By ROBERT MCCLURE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
May 21, 2005

Every morning when 4-year-old Jay Mullen showed up at the Navy day care 
center, he got a glass of milk -- milk that his lawyers now say was 
tainted by radioactive fallout from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

It would be 15 years before Mullen's body was gripped by paralysis that 
necessitated removal of his diseased thyroid. Three more decades elapsed 
before Mullen found out the government had purposely released 
radioactive substances upwind of his childhood home in North Idaho.

Reflecting yesterday on verdicts in a lawsuit against government 
contractors at Hanford, Mullen savored what he called a long-awaited 
victory for people downwind from the bomb-making plant that ended World 
War II.

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For the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/225306_downwinders21.html

--
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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