[cdn-nucl-l] Fw: Report: Nuclear Workers Exposed

["Jerry Cuttler" <jerrycuttler@home.com>]

FYI

----- Original Message -----
From: Ted Rockwell <tedrock@cpcug.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list ans-pie <ans-pie@nuke-ans.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: Report: Nuclear Workers Exposed


> > The government regularly documented worker health risks at many
> private facilities, producing highly classified reports that detailed
> radiation exposure rates hundreds of times above safety standards.
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> > Dozens of private companies contaminated the surrounding air, soil
> and water with toxic and radioactive waste.
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> > ..., with grave
> health and environmental consequences for thousands of workers and
> dozens of communities.
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> People:
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> You wonder if "we're getting our message across."  THIS is the message
that
> is being given to the public by the agency charged with promoting nuclear
> energy.  This purports to be official government information.  Is any
> individual or organization in the nuclear field going to refute these
lies?
> Or are we all agreed that we're secret mass murderers?
>
> What has ANS, HPS and NEI to do that is more important than responding to
> this stuff?  The government is going to pour billions into "compensation"
> and the utitlies will spend a little less than that on individual
lawsuits.
> Forever (because no one is trying to change the phony basis for all this
> nonsense--the official policy that any amount of radiation is lethal.).
> And we worry about whether anti-nukes are going to tarnish our image!
>
> Ted Rockwell
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