[CPEO-MEF] Mound Plant (OH) workers' records

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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.

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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

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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