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"Any one of about eight players could be playing number one on any given day," Piltch said. "In fact, there are about 15 or 20 players who are really good."
The report, based in part on previously secret government documents, indicates that federal officials knew more about such health dangers than has been acknowledged, and that decisions were made to keep workers in the dark.
The report focused mainly on the period of 1947 to 1954, during which the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the predecessor to the Energy Department, was rapidly expanding nuclear arms production amid deep suspicions about Soviet and other foreign work on nuclear bombs.
Records of an October, 1948 meeting of an AEC advisory committee indicated that enough was known then about releases of radiation at the Hanford plutonium plant near Richland, Washington, to raise concerns about workers' health. Yet it was decided at that meeting not to recommend closing Hanford temporarily while action...
Despite the concerns about health dangers, "a counter-balancing concern was the perceived need, fueled by Cold War fears, to continue plutonium production because of the relatively small size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal in 1948," the report said.