[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Radioactivity found on Newport News (VA) shipyard worker's clothing

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Trace radioactivity found on NN shipyard worker's clothing

By Peter Frost
Daily Press (VA)
June 8, 2010

NEWPORT NEWS - A trace amount of radioactive material was found on the 
clothing of a worker at Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Newport News shipyard, 
triggering a detailed investigation, a yard spokeswoman confirmed.

The employee was performing radiological surveys in a tank aboard the 
nuclear-powered USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier on May 25 when 
the contamination occurred, the yard said.

No detectable radioactivity was found on the worker's skin or internally 
and the incident did not result in an "adverse impact to the employee's 
health, the public or the environment," said Margaret Mitchell-Jones, a 
Northrop spokeswoman. The yard did not name the worker, who has returned 
to his job.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/business/ports/dp-nws-shipyard-nuclear-20100608-6,0,5682153.story

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