Word: itness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sen. 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...
The report quoted a committee report from the 1948 meeting as saying, "there is no scientific evidence that it is an unwarranted hazard to continue the present process for six weeks, during which steps will be taken vigorously to control the hazard." The control measures apparently were not fully successful...
The advisory panel rejected the recommendation, the report said. Instead it recommended to the AEC that "a terminating employee should be advised at the exit interview as to the care that the AEC utilizes in protecting each employee."
Parker wrote that "the critical hazard is to the inhalation and lung retention of particles," which he said "can produce radiation damage." At the time, it was estimated that a worker could be inhaling about 16 radioactive particles per month. This suggests that over a one-year period a worker...