[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION - Pinellas Plant (FL) workers

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

"I'm just so tired of going to funerals"
Barrels of nuclear waste and other sludge was once buried at Pinellas Plant

Editor's note: This is the second segment of a two-part series.
By THOMAS MICHALSKI
Tampa Bay Newspapers (FL)
February 19, 2008
	

PINELLAS COUNTY - Robert D. Bossard of Seminole remembers watching 
workers digging up 55 gallon drums of nuclear waste and other sludge 
from the grounds of Pinellas Plant on Bryan Dairy Road in Largo and 
transporting them off the property.

Bossard alleges that the workers who removed hazardous waste from the 
plant virtually all have since died of cancers and other diseases 
reportedly caused by contaminants. Bossard himself was exposed to 
beryllium, a toxic metal that he says will eventually cause serious 
disorders.

The U.S. Department of Energy, once known as the Atomic Energy 
Commission, moved an undetermined amount of contaminated material to a 
facility known as U.S. Pollution Control Inc. in Tooele County, Utah.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tbnweekly.com/pinellas_county/content_articles/021908_pco-01.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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