[CPEO-MEF] Rocky Flats throwaway stories

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rocky Flats 'got worse'

Ex-workers echo claims equipment was thrown away

By Todd Hartman
Rocky Mountain News (CO)
July 22, 2006

Allegations that enormous stores of new equipment were thrown away in 
the haste to close Rocky Flats and earn the contractor early cleanup 
bonuses have been echoed by several workers who contacted the Rocky 
Mountain News after the newspaper published initial claims in April.

The complaints, now under review by the Department of Energy's Office of 
Inspector General, involve assertions by former workers at the 
now-demolished plant that supervisors with cleanup contractor 
Kaiser-Hill found it easier to throw away the materials, many of which 
were still in boxes or wrapped in plastic, than to find new homes for them.

"It got to where you just had to turn a blind eye because if you didn't, 
it would make you sick," said Andrea Sierra, who worked for the company 
that was hired by Kaiser-Hill to auction off excess equipment during the 
closure. "Nothing stuns me anymore."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4862678,00.html

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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
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