[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Paducah (Lentucky) legal case

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Neighbors hope order yields Ky. nuke plant answers

By BRETT BARROUQUERE/Associated Press
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY)
July 13, 2009

Ronald Lamb lives in the shadow of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, 
where uranium is reprocessed and enriched for use as nuclear fuel. Like 
many neighbors suing over radiation, he blames pollution from the plant 
for leaving his land worthless.

"They just stole my inheritance," Lamb said. "I'll never believe nothing 
else."

As attorneys for Lamb and other landowners near the plant in far western 
Kentucky seek answers about happened to their property and compensation 
for their claims, a federal judge has ordered former plant operators 
Union Carbide Corp., and Lockheed Martin to find employees who can 
testify in a deposition about environmental practices at the plant from 
the 1950s through the 1980s.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Goebel this month ordered the companies to 
identify and make available people who could testify to the 
environmental practices at the plant. Goebel initially gave Union 
Carbide until July 7 to identify who would be deposed and the plaintiffs 
until Aug. 28 to complete the questioning.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/860719.html

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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