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My parents worked at Hanford in Washington State. My mother for several years, my father for his entire career ...1949 to retirement, with GE. Mom has had 4 separate kinds of cancer. Colon cancer, surgically cured, lymphoma, in remission with chemotherapy, kidney cancer, surgically cured, and skin cancer. My father had cancer of the esophagus, had surgery and got a post surgery infection. He now has no esophagus and tube feeds. (He can eat recreational-ly, and spit it out.) My brother had cancer in a lymph node in his cheek when he was 11 he died of leukemia when he was 57 years old, 4 years ago. It was very difficult for my sister and I to convince them to apply for compensation, in the DOWN-WINDER studies.

My parents were paid a lot of money for their exposures, nearly a half a million dollars.

I was in utero when they did some of the big iodine releases in the 1949 and 1950. So far at 57, I have no cancer. (I also have no heath insurance, so I stay away from Doctors)


I will never believe in safe nuclear power. I think Hanford still makes weapons grade plutonium. Lots of new construction going on in the Tri Cities, Richland, Pasco and Kennewick. They must be very busy out at Hanford. My nephew works there and so does my brother-in-law. I worry about all the workers there.

I worked out there for a couple weeks when I was 22 and it is like the TWILIGHT ZONE. SCARY!

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein,