[CPEO-MEF] Oak Ridge (TN) workers splashed

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Two Y-12 workers hit with radioactive liquids last month

By Frank Munger
Knoxville News Sentinel (TN)
September 6, 2007


OAK RIDGE - Two workers had to be decontaminated after being splashed 
with radioactive liquids during separate incidents last month at the 
Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, the government's contractor confirmed Wednesday.

Bill Wilburn, a spokesman for BWXT Y-12, said the two employees are 
still being evaluated, although he said they "face little health risk 
from the contamination."

Eight other workers are being monitored for possible exposures as a 
result of one of the August incidents, Wilburn said.

The incidents took place in Y-12's enriched uranium operations complex, 
which has been plagued with spills and equipment failures during the 
past year.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/sep/06/two-y-12-workershit-with-radioactive-liquids/

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