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Former Hanford Worker Sick from Nuclear Waste Spill Speaks Out
Posted: Apr 29, 2014 11:04 PM CST Updated: Apr 30, 2014 3:02 PM CST
Posted by Jane Sander, Reporter
NBC Right Now spoke with a former Hanford worker exposed to chemical vapors on the job. He
wasn't a tank farm worker. He was a truck driver at the Hanford site.
RICHLAND, WA - Lonnie Poteet arrived outside a tank farm to deliver some fuel and quickly started feeling symptoms from exposure to chemical vapors.What he didn't know was a nuclear waste spill happened hours before at the tank farm.
"I was already burning from my glove line to my t-shirt line and the side of my face and I was already starting to lose a little bit of vision in my right eye," Poteet said. It all happened so fast. On July 27th 2007, Lonnie Poteet, a contracted worker, drove up to site to deliver some fuel.
At the time, CH2M Hill was managing the tank farm cleanup and failed to notify all workers about the spill. The spill reportedly happened at 2:10am. Poteet arrived at the fence line of the tank farm at 10:00am.
"Very frustrated. When they told their crews that showed up that day to go to work to stay in because they had a potential spill, they held them back, but notified nobody else. They put me in harms way. Specifically they asked me to be there as late in the day as possible. They knew I was coming. Why didn't they say something?" Poteet said.
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- This whole Hanford business is a travesty. They have poisoned the land for generations.....
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- When the truth was they could never really control nuclear power, once it's out of the bottle.
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[/center]...their silence has been broken.
The very people they've hired to try and get us out of this mess, they betrayed.
- But then, there's nothing new in that either.....
Inspector: Feds 'consistently in denial' at Hanford
State blasts feds’ response to Hanford leak
Hanford: Whistleblower files new complaint
Hanford whistleblower loses job
Wash. AG disappointed by Hanford cleanup delays
New approach to problem-riddled Hanford cleanup
Radiation leak detected at Hanford
State inspectors document problems at Hanford
Worst Hanford tank may be leaking into soil
Feds: Hanford leaking tank won't be pumped until 2019
Leak in Hanford double-shell tank getting worse
Hanford officials hid leak evidence from advisory panel
No plan in place when leak alarm sounded at Hanford
Nearly a dozen Hanford employees sick from unknown fumes
State blasts feds’ response to Hanford leak
Hanford: Whistleblower files new complaint
Hanford whistleblower loses job
Wash. AG disappointed by Hanford cleanup delays
New approach to problem-riddled Hanford cleanup
Radiation leak detected at Hanford
State inspectors document problems at Hanford
Worst Hanford tank may be leaking into soil
Feds: Hanford leaking tank won't be pumped until 2019
Leak in Hanford double-shell tank getting worse
Hanford officials hid leak evidence from advisory panel
No plan in place when leak alarm sounded at Hanford
Nearly a dozen Hanford employees sick from unknown fumes
- That of course is a LIE. One that the government tells people -- even condescendingly comparing it to eating bananas -- which is total BS.
Nuclear Cheerleaders Use Voodoo Science to Pretend Low Levels of Radiation Are Safe … Or Even Good For You
Posted on May 16, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog
Department of Energy Pretends that Low Levels of Radiation Are Safe
Dr. Peter Karamoskos – a nuclear radiologist and a public representative on the radiation health committee of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency – wrote in the Sydey Herald last year:
Posted on May 16, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog
Department of Energy Pretends that Low Levels of Radiation Are Safe
Dr. Peter Karamoskos – a nuclear radiologist and a public representative on the radiation health committee of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency – wrote in the Sydey Herald last year:
You have to hand it to the nuclear industry and its acolytes. In the middle of the second-worst nuclear power disaster in history at Fukushima, and with still no end in sight, you would think they would respond with contrition, humility and profuse mea culpas. Not on your life. The industry representatives and its acolytes came out swinging in full denial attire.
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...they asked him if he could work late.
- These people are evil. Some call it psychopathy. I call it pure evil.
The St Louis Experiments
Unethical Human Experimentation In The United States
Government Secret Experiments
Nazi Style Human Experimentation By U.S. Government
