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

[Steven Dapra]

Aug. 18

         What is the full citation to this article?  Who are the 
authors?  (Asked out of morbid curiosity.)

Steven Dapra
sjd at swcp.com



At 01:29 AM 8/18/07 +0000, parthasarathy k s wrote:

>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