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Hanford nuclear workers swallowed radiation particles, test positive for contamination – report
Published time: 5 Aug, 2017 01:42
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Hanford nuclear workers swallowed radiation particles, test positive for contamination – report
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Several of the workers tasked with one of the largest nuclear cleanup efforts in the world have tested positive for radiation contamination. Out of the fraction of workers tested, 20 percent were found with “internal exposures.”
On June 8, more than 300 workers at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP), which produced two-thirds of the nation’s plutonium “buttons” during the Cold War, were ordered to “take cover” after Continuous Air Monitoring (CAM) alarms at the facility detected airborne radiation, according to a press release.
Veteran Hanford worker says they knew event like this would happen because CH2M Hill "rushing the demolition." & "not listening to workers"
— Susannah Frame (@SFrameK5) June 8, 2017
The incident was not unexpected. One worker at the nuclear weapons facility told KING reporter Susannah Frame that CH2M Hill, an engineering consultant company contracted by the US Department of Energy, was “rushing the demolition” and “not listening to workers.”
Hanford officials said the order to take cover was merely a “precautionary” safety measure. Officials with CH2M Hill said the contamination was “not considered harmful.”
On Thursday, KING published an internal CH2M Hill email from July 21 that said the company issued bioassay kits, which detects the amount of radiation in the body, to more than 300 employees who were at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant when the CAM alarms went off in June.
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Hanford nuclear workers swallowed radiation particles, test positive for contamination – report
Published time: 5 Aug, 2017 01:42
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Hanford nuclear workers swallowed radiation particles, test positive for contamination – report
© HanfordPlateau / YouTube
Several of the workers tasked with one of the largest nuclear cleanup efforts in the world have tested positive for radiation contamination. Out of the fraction of workers tested, 20 percent were found with “internal exposures.”
On June 8, more than 300 workers at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP), which produced two-thirds of the nation’s plutonium “buttons” during the Cold War, were ordered to “take cover” after Continuous Air Monitoring (CAM) alarms at the facility detected airborne radiation, according to a press release.
Veteran Hanford worker says they knew event like this would happen because CH2M Hill "rushing the demolition." & "not listening to workers"
— Susannah Frame (@SFrameK5) June 8, 2017
The incident was not unexpected. One worker at the nuclear weapons facility told KING reporter Susannah Frame that CH2M Hill, an engineering consultant company contracted by the US Department of Energy, was “rushing the demolition” and “not listening to workers.”
Hanford officials said the order to take cover was merely a “precautionary” safety measure. Officials with CH2M Hill said the contamination was “not considered harmful.”
On Thursday, KING published an internal CH2M Hill email from July 21 that said the company issued bioassay kits, which detects the amount of radiation in the body, to more than 300 employees who were at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant when the CAM alarms went off in June.
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Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (https://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?245619-big-nuclear-pollution-crisis-not-Fukushima-toxin-swallowed&goto=newpost).