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There is a possibility that a corruption scheme for the supply of nuclear fuel was created at the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) "Kozloduy", according to statements made before Darik radio by Georgi Kotev. Kotev is an employee of the NPP and had initially made his accusations through a popular video clips Internet site.
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RICHLAND, Wash. A worker who was splashed with hazardous and radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation in 2002 died this week of cancer, one day before a federal appeals court ruled in his lawsuit against a contractor at the site. Daniel Golden, 56, of Sunnyside, died Tuesday. He had been diagnosed with cancer a little more than a year ago, said his son, Dave Golden.
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An Armstrong County judge has ordered the exhumation of a West Leechburg woman who died 40 years ago to determine the cause of death and answer questions about her exposure to radiation and other contaminants.
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Ward Plummer, a distinguished scientist with joint appointments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, said Thursday that ORNL has eliminated his lab position - effective June 30. "ORNL terminated me," Plummer said. "I got terminated without a review."
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LAS VEGAS, May 19 (UPI) -- A Nevada woman says her long-running battle for compensation for her husband's death has become a crusade to expose U.S. Department of Labor intransigence. Bonnie Mattick told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the agency has refused to authorize the $150,000 in she feels she is owed after her husband died of cancer she says was caused by his work with toxic and radioactive materials at the Nevada Test Site.
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A former Energy Department contract employee has been denied an illness compensation claim solely because he worked at Area 51, though federal officials years ago told base contract workers they would receive the same consideration as Nevada Test Site workers who became ill. And that makes Fred Dunham think the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program should be scrapped for a more fair system that follows a course Congress intended.
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A former Davis Besse nuclear plant engineer found guilty of hiding information about the worst corrosion ever found at a U.S. reactor was sentenced Thursday to three years probation.
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Dirk Bartlett, director of government relations for EnergySolutions, today released a copy of the incident report the company submitted to the state earlier this year following a contamination incident at the Bear Creek Road waste-processing facility. The worker who opened the package received by far the highest radiation dose (about 2.8 rems), although a few others were in the area at the time.
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The doctor who treated the “Atomic Man” contaminated at Hanford in the nation’s worst radiological accident speaks today in Richland about Harold McCluskey’s care. McCluskey was caught in the August 1976 explosion of a glove box at Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant when nitric acid was added to a column containing resin and radioactive americium. McCluskey spent five months in a steel-and-concrete isolation tank at the Hanford Emergency Decontamination Facility in Richland.
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