Deadly denial: Shifting rules drowning sick nuclear workers : Deadly Denial : ... - The Diigo Meta page

• 24 Jul 08
  

  elsamary

  While a large number of sick workers have radiation-induced cancer, many suffer from other diseases linked to toxic exposures. In both cases, sick workers must prove a link between their exposures and their illnesses, but Congress intentionally made the standard of proof lower in the case of toxic exposure than in radiation-only cases. The labor department continues to use the higher bar for both.

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• 23 Jul 08
  

  Energy Net

  At the height of the Cold War, hidden away in the nation's heartland amid grazing cattle and glistening cornfields, a top-secret installation bustled with hundreds of workers assembling nuclear warheads.
  
  Denny Daily worked for 14 years as a security guard at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant in rural Des Moines County. He had the highest level of security clearance and guarded the clandestinely named "Line 1," where the warhead work took place, and the "igloos" where the warheads were stored in earthen and concrete bunkers.

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