[ RadSafe ] Effects of Pu dust leaking from Hanford N-facilities, compensation to tens of thousands of families who suffered horrific effects of Pu poisoning

[parthasarathy k s]

Friends,

In an article which debated the toxicity of plutonium, one of the authors referred to

"the U.S. Department of Energy documentation
on the effects of the Pu dust that leaked from the Hanford n-facilities
in the U.S. for over four decades from the 1940s (made public thanks
largely to the efforts of former U.S. Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary),
and how the U.S. Department of Health is still monitoring — and indeed
paying compensation to — tens of thousands of families that have
suffered the horrific effects of Pu poisoning even though they lived
hundreds of kilometres away from Hanford."

Can any one familiar with the ground realities provide authentic information on the report urgently? Answers to the following questions may be appropriate:

1) What was the effect of Pu dust which leaked from Hanford n-facilities (as given in the USDOE documents)?
2) What was the exact role of the former energy secretary in the matter?
3) How much compensation was given to families?
4) what was the reason for giving compensation? Was  it related to Pu contamination?
5) What was the area in which contamination was found in environmental monitoring?.

Answers to these questions are needed urgently  to  set right incorrect reporting  in an article.


Regards
K.S.Parthasarathy




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