2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 8 Jan 2007 04:57:34 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Mound Plant (OH) workers' records
 
Ill former nuclear workers question why Mound records were buried

Dayton Daily News
January 7, 2007

DAYTON, Ohio - Former nuclear weapons workers have questioned why the federal government buried records that they say could help determine if exposure to radiation and other industrial toxins made them sick, a newspaper reported.

About 400 boxes of records from the Mound nuclear weapons plant in Miamisburg were buried in 2005 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The records, which tested positive for radioactive contamination, were declared a health threat and had little overall value, officials with the U.S. Department of Energy said.

"I find it stunning," Richard Miller, an analyst for the Government Accountability Project, a Washington-based watchdog group, told the Dayton Daily News for a story published Sunday. Miller said the government should exhume the records, if possible.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/01/06/ddn010707moundinside.html?UrAuth=%60N%60NUOcN[UbTTUWUXUVUZTYU_UWUcUaUZU]U%60UcTYWVVZV

--


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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@list.cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military

  Prev by Date: [CPEO-MEF] Armorcast property, Birdsboro, PA
Next by Date: [CPEO-MEF] Plum Brook RAB supports current management team
  Prev by Thread: [CPEO-MEF] Armorcast property, Birdsboro, PA
Next by Thread: [CPEO-MEF] Plum Brook RAB supports current management team

CPEO Home
CPEO Lists
Author Index
Date Index
Thread Index