[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: 2007 Fire at Oak Ridge (TN) Y-12 Plant

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Y-12 chief gives details of 2007 fire
Uranium particles from fire spread via building's air system

By Frank Munger
Knoxville News Sentinel (TN)
June 22, 2008


OAK RIDGE - The small uranium fire extinguished itself within a matter 
of seconds March 15, 2007. But there were signs of broader concern when 
a radiation alarm went off in another area of the large building where 
warhead parts are assembled and taken apart.

"That really was the clue that there was a continuing issue," said Jim 
Barker, radiological control chief at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant.

As it turned out, 111 workers at the Oak Ridge plant received internal 
radiation doses from the uranium fire.

...

The NNSA's report, released last week, emphasized the seriousness of the 
2007 incident, which got little attention at the time.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jun/22/y-12-chief-gives-details-of-2007-fire/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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