[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, HEALTH: Hanford workers breathe in radioactive contamination; levels well below limits"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hanford workers breathe in radioactive contamination; levels well  
below limits

By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
March 27, 2012

Several Hanford workers breathed in radioactive contamination at the  
Hanford nuclear reservation's Plutonium Finishing Plant, according to  
newly completed laboratory tests.

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board reported the February  
event in the latest weekly staff report it has released, calling it a  
"significant contamination event."

The reports also stated that workers responded appropriately when the  
potential danger was discovered. The Department of Energy has called  
the Plutonium Finishing Plant Hanford's highest hazard facility.

Newly completed analyses of bioassays for 17 employees show that one  
worker had internal contamination with radiation roughly comparable  
to the radiation from one chest X-ray, said Terry Vaughn, vice  
president of safety, health, security and quality for CH2M Hill  
Plateau Remediation Co.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/03/27/1880901/hanford-workers- 
breathe-in-radioactive.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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