The Government Finally Admits that Radiation Exposure Sickened Past Nuclear Arms Workers

"It does appear that in the DOE complex, there is a direct link between exposure and the possibility of contamination." Bill Richardson-Energy Secretary

After several decades of denial, the federal government finally admits to possible worker contamination reports. The federal government confesses that many American workers may have been exposed to harmful radiation and/or toxic chemicals when building nuclear weapons decades ago. The initial study was ordered by President Clinton last July, and the results have completely reversed the long time decision that there were no links between Cold War-era nuclear weapons plants and later illnesses.

The data reviewed was dozens of reports and medical data from 600,000 workers at 14 American nuclear weapons sites. The findings after the review could lead to some compensation to several of the families of the involved workers.

The studies were of health records spanning three decades from the 1940's through the 1960's. The studies didn't show, however a direct link from exposures to specific sicknesses, but showed the involved workers at the plants having an increased rate of sicknesses including leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma and cancers of the prostate, kidney, salivary gland and lung. There were about 22 categories of cancer all together.

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