Published: September 27th, 2011 at 6:40 pm ET
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Atomic workers ridiculed in training manual, Dayton Daily News by Tom Beyerlein, September 25, 2011:
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Advocates for atomic workers sickened by on-the-job radiation exposure at places like the Miamisburg Mound Plant say they’re outraged by a training manual for a federal compensation program [for sick nuclear workers suffering from cancers and other illnesses] that refers to a hypothetical claimant as “Freddy Krueger,” the name of a horror movie character whose face was badly burned. [... It] also refers to the pathologist in a hypothetical dead worker’s case as the fictitious serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. [...]
“None of the (hypothetical) claims examiners had names like this. It was like ‘Jane Doe.’ Bland names, which is appropriate (for the tone of a training manual),” said [worker advocate Deb Jerison of Yellow Springs, who heads a nonprofit that helps sick atomic workers and their survivors obtain federal benefits. Her father, Mound physicist James Goode, died in 1960 at age 36. After a six-year process, she helped her mother win survivor benefits, but her mother died in 2008 before the money arrived.]
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program
- The manual’s jocular attitude toward workers who have suffered from cancers and other serious illnesses is “indicative of the disrespect that’s shown to claimants” by Labor Department officials, said [Jerison].
- For decades, the Energy Department claimed that none of its workers was sickened by radioactive exposures. Since the program was established in 2001, it has paid $7.4 billion in compensation and doctor bills for more than 86,000 claimants.
- In May, program Director Rachel Leiton told an advisory board that sick workers couldn’t be trusted to tell the truth in affidavits about their work history at atomic plants.
- Jerison obtained the manual in a Freedom of Information Act request.
- Labor officials did not return repeated phone calls seeking comment.
h/t Anonymous tip
The AP also filed a report: Atomic worker advocates aghast at names in manual
Published: September 27th, 2011 at 6:40 pm ET
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Very easy to explain friends.
…You see Nuclear Reactors are safe, the humans running the Plants are to blame.
Just like Guns….Guns are safe, the humans shooting the Guns are to blame.
red red wine
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@rrw……Bad analogy in my opinion.
Guns can lay around safely through earthquakes, fires, floods and electrical blackouts. It takes a conscious human act to pull the trigger on a gun.
Nuclear reactors can and obviously will spew death all by themselves from time to time once they are up and running.
Even a gun “accident” is only a danger to the person directly in front of the weapon. Nuclear reactor “accident” has the potential to kill and sicken millions of people in any direction.
No apples to apples here…..sorry.
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Agreed. That analogy doesn’t work. In fact, it’s exactly the opposite case between nuclear reactors and guns.
Guns are completely safe if there is no human intervention with it.
Nuclear reactors only have the possibility of being safe if there is human intervention. That is, active powered support systems are required to keep it cool, controlled, and contained.
And nuclear reactors are always unsafe once those support systems are gone.
I’ll take thousands of guns lying untouched over any nuclear reactor lying untouched any day.
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Oooh…Not a good example. Why do people insist that Guns kill people when it takes a person to pull the trigger? A Gun is an inanimate object..it can Protect as well as Kill, but needs a person to decide which action to do. It doesn’t lie there and say “Oh.. i’m gonna go kill someone today.” Hop off the table and go out into the street and look for someone to shoot.
Sorry… a big stick can kill too…maybe we should ban trees.
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What did Henry Kissinger say/call our Armed Force’s Troops !
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?fulltext=Search&search=Henry%20Kissinger%20say
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I hope karma is real
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Yes Chaossquared! KARMA!! Oh please let it be real.
Posted to HP. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/19/nuclear-power-protests-tokyo-japan_n_969385.html
still in moderation. I’m steaming! HOpe this goes VIRAL!
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It is.
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Since this all started in the 1940′s I’m sure US Federal Government has much secret info on affects of radiation to humans. I’m sure access to various nuke-workers, soldiers, scientists, medical records through private insurance companies would be most enlightening. In nearly 70 years the American government has learned much in managing humans natural fear of nuclear radiation.
“Before being released back into the river, the used water was held in large tanks known as retention basins for up to six hours. Longer-lived isotopes were not affected by this retention, and several terabecquerels entered the river every day. These releases were kept secret by the federal government.[4] ”
God Bless America this went on for 30 years!
read more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
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Well as long as “Wiki” states that it is now a problem…it must be…now(You know as opposed to back in March).
Even now, as we are breathing it in, people still giggle and hope that their deaths will linger for years. People just love dramatic,bloody endings.
“Those people over there” participating in the divisive media and governments-are our cousins,uncles, parents, husbands, wives, sisters, and brothers; they are our coworkers and friends.
Those overseeing such things made horrible errors by lying to the public. We made horrible errors by trusting them when we knew they could not be trusted. They will now die with us.
I’m sure many will find that funny as well.
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Shatka and others,4. ^ a b c d e f “An Overview of Hanford and Radiation Health Effects”. Hanford Health Information Network. Retrieved January 29, 2007.[dead link]
Thats the citation from my quote. What does retrieved mean? Guessing when added to Wiki file?
Information on radiation pollution has been around for decades. Like cigarettes causing cancer issue we have been slow to act.
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http://hanford-downwinders.tribe.net/thread/646b1a1e-0514-461f-9849-92526fa58c9d
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Well maybe being refered to by your employer as a Freddy Kruger is a good reason to stop signing up to work at Nuclear plants or working for the military. I’m in favor of the draft…when it’s really needed…not a tax payers army to secure the riches of other countries for private corporations turn around and sell it back to the tax payers. I seem to remeber a phrase “the oil will pay for the war”
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Thanks Anne, copied page to read later. Going for evening swim. Someone asked me why I exercise indoors. After Arnie’s “Fuel fleas in Seattle” video, I sold my bicycle and returned to swimming.
Awesome public pools here with sauna’s. Swimming total cardio and more work out utilizing most of the bodies muscles no shock to old joints like jogging.
If there is the odd plutonic fuel flea floating around Vancouver, must be less fuel fleas indoors then biking for miles outside. Plus other swimmers filtering indoor air. Sauna sweats out bodies impurities. Sorry for no citation but I have read that some radio active poisons exit through sweat. Your skin is your largest organ.
Good night All and God Bless
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I understand about not wanting to bike outside. I also loved biking outside, but I will not be doing it for the foreseeable future either. I’m sorry to hear that you sold yours, however. There is a thing called a “trainer” that you can attach to your bike so that you can ride it indoors. It’s not as fun as being outside since you don’t get the air blowing at you and the change of scenery and all the need to balance and steer. Nevertheless, it’s a way to continue biking indoors (without using a so-called stationary exercise “bike,” which I find are not shaped like real bikes and don’t feel like the real thing). If you get a trainer, it’s really necessary to also get the thing that goes under the front wheel as well so that the bike can be level (or even inclined upward if you want a harder work out), rather than pointing slightly downward (which is hard on your arms). A few different companies make them:
http://biketrainerreviews.com/the-benefits-of-an-indoor-cycling-trainer/
http://biketrainerreviews.com/
http://www.trisports.com/trainers.html
http://cycling-review.com/accessories/bicycle-trainer/
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i like these kinds of posts. we get the danger; we deal with it by limiting our exposure.
get a filter for your home and trap large particles… this is fun to do. it feels good.
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This is so sick. I’m happy this journalist has found out and published. Very good work!
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