[CPEO-MEF] Colonie Plant (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

   oison from NL site lingers
New study shows people who lived near or worked at former munitions
factory in Colonie have depleted uranium in their bodies

By JORDAN CARLEO-EVANGELIST
Albany Times-Union (NY)
December 6, 2007

COLONIE -- Former workers at a Cold War-era munitions plant and nearby
residents still carry traces of toxic depleted uranium in their bodies,
a team of scientists said Wednesday.

The findings, unveiled at a news conference, seem to contradict an
earlier assessment by the federal government that deemed it impossible
to measure contamination because it had been so long since the emissions
ended.

Contrary to that 2004 assessment by the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry, the scientists from England and the University at
Albany say they can now show that more than two decades later, people
still carry the radioactive metal in their bodies.

The state shuttered the former NL Industries plant in 1984.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=644848&category=REGION&newsdate=12/6/2007

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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