Contractors hid dangers from Paducah workers

["Jacobus, John (OD)" <JJacobus@exchange.nih.gov>]

The latest from the front page of today's Washington Post, September 21, 1999.
As the first paragraph says:

"Managers of the government's Paducah, Ky., uranium plant knew for decades of
unusual radiation hazards inside the complex but failed to warn workers because
of fears of a public outcry, according to documents to be released by a
congressional panel this week."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-09/21/055l-092199-idx.html

-- John 

Truth is uncontrovertibly.  Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice
may destroy it, but there it is.

Winston Churchill

John Jacobus, MS
Health Physicist
National Institutes of Health
Radiation Safety Branch, Building 21
21 Wilson Drive, MSC 6780
Bethesda, MD  20892-6780
Phone: 301-496-5774      Fax: 301-496-3544
jjacobus@exchange.nih.gov (W)
jenday@ix.netcom.com (H)
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