Re: Suit Against Nuclear Plant

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Sandy Perle wrote:

> Tne term "nuclear plant" is probably assumed to be a nuclear 
> power plant by the masses.

	--This was the old NUMEC plant, Nuclear Materials and Equipment
Corp (if I remember right), in Apollo, PA. It was not a nuclear power
plant.  It did chemical and metallurgical processing on
plutonium and other materials, in nearly all cases for defense programs.


> Suit Against Nuclear Plant - (PITTSBURGH) -- A class-action 
> lawsuit against operators of nuclear plant goes to court
> today in Pittsburgh. Nearly 120 residents in Armstrong County are 
> trying to prove that their neighborhood has been ravaged by
> cancer due to emissions from a nearby nuclear fuel processing 
> plant. They claim the plant should never have been built near a
> residential area... and say they were never told of the dangers of 
> the plant. Those suing the company include the original plant
> owner, Atlantic Richfield, and the company that later bought the 
> plant, Babcock and Wilcox. Attorneys for the residents have
> amassed Millions of documents about the plant. Part of what they 
> learned is that a nearby treatment plant became radioactive
> while treating wastewater from a laundry used to decontaminate 
> workers uniforms. The jury trial is expected to last three
> weeks. 
> 
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