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RE: radiation lawsuit
Radsafers:
Does anyone have any more information on this news item?
Thanks,
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Christopher H. Clement
Scientific Specialist / Radiation Protection Program Manager
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Office
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
clementc@aecl.ca
> > ----------
> > From: Michael C. Baker[SMTP:mcbaker@lanl.gov]
> > Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 10:08 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ans-pie
> > Subject: radiation lawsuit
> >
> >
> >
> > From this morning's news:
> >
> >
> > > CANCER VICTIMS WIN $36.5 MILLION JUDGMENT
> >
> > The owners of a uranium plant used during the Cold War were ordered by a
> > jury to pay at least $36.5 million Thursday to eight cancer-stricken
> > residents, or their relatives, from the small Pennsylvania town of
> Apollo.
> > Atlantic Richfield Co. and Babcock and Wilcox Co. were found negligent
> in
> > the operation of the now-closed Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp.
> > plant. Nearly 100 residents of the town 30 miles northeast of Pittsburgh
> > have claimed that three decades of radiation from the plant have caused
> an
> > unusually high incidence of cancer.
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Michael C. Baker, Ph.D. Safeguards Science and Technology
> > Nonproliferation and International
> > Security Division
> > email: mcbaker@lanl.gov Los Alamos National Laboratory
> > Phone: (505) 667-7334 P.O. Box 1663, Mail Stop E540
> > Fax: (505) 665-4433 Los Alamos, NM 87545 (USA)
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
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