Workers Exposed to Radiation at Nuclear Arms Site, Paper Says

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Workers Exposed to Radiation at Nuclear Arms Site, Paper Says

Golden, Colorado, Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Ten workers at a former 
nuclear arms site used to build plutonium detonators tested 
positive for exposure to radiation, the New York Times reported, 
citing officials. 

The nine men and one woman were working on a 11-year, $7 billion 
project intended to turn the former weapons-development site into a 
wildlife preserve, the paper said. Hundreds of buildings on 6,300 
acres known as Rocky Flats were contaminated with life-
threatening toxic materials, such as plutonium and beryllium. 

Officials are still searching for the source of the radiation, the paper 
said. A routine inspection of the building the workers were cleaning 
-- one of the most contaminated -- found that a radiation detector 
wasn't working properly. 

Officials don't know when the exposure occurred, which means as 
many as 200 other workers could have also been exposed, the 
paper said, citing Robert Card, president of Kaiser-Hill, the 
company that won the cleanup contract in 1995.
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