RE: Radiation Records Being Investigated

["Phil V. Egidi" <7pe@ornl.gov>]

Radsters,
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think the difference is that the NPP 
programs are/were regulated by the States or NRC (some may say 
over-regulated), whereas during the Cold War the DOE sites were not subject 
to oversight, and allegedly put production in front of protecting workers 
and the environment.

For example, there's a lot of environmental contamination at the DOE sites, 
very little (if any, that I know of) at power plants.  DOE claimed eminent 
domain during the Cold War, and said they didn't have to comply with 
environmental regulation. That didn't change until after the FBI raids at 
Rocky, and the first-ever (that I know of) suit of one department (DOJ or 
EPA?) of the government against another (DOE).  Only after DOE was told 
that they had to comply with environmental regulations did things start to 
change.  The possibility exists that worker protection and industrial 
safety were treated similarly as the environment (production first), thus 
the worker stories that are now surfacing.

The difference is in the lack of regulatory oversight and in the legacy 
programs' Cold War philosophy, not the "mystically different properties" of 
radiation.

Phil Egidi
ORNL/GJ
7pe@ornl.gov


At 01:14 PM 3/24/00 -0600, you wrote:
>I believe the "logical" basis for this argument is that the DOE produced
>radiation has "mystically different properties" than NPP produced radiation.
>Does this mean I could collect compensation for each of the DOE Sites from
>which I have received exposure?
>
>
>"If we keep doing what we're doing, we'll keep getting what we're getting."
>Chris A. Marthaller, RRPT
>Phone (505) 234-8661
>Sr. Training Coordinator - WIPP
>ChrisM@wipp.carlsbad.nm.us <mailto: chrism@wipp.carlsbad.nm.us>
>Obviously, these are the author's unofficial views.

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