Word: healthful
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...report was prepared by the majority staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. The panel is investigating health research programs of the Energy Department, which owns the 17 major facilities that design and make nuclear arms...
...John Glenn (D-Ohio), committee chair, said in releasing the report that it "shows that the U.S. nuclear weapons program was exposing large numbers of workers to potentially dangerous health risks but did nothing to warn them...
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 was taken to stop the release of plutonium particles into...
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...
...March 1948 report by Dr. Herbert M. Parker, director of the Hanford health instruments department of General Electric Co., which ran the facility for the government, said an average of about 7.4 billion particles was being released from the two plants each month...