Team 4: Neighbors With Cancer Sue Former Nuclear Plant Owner - Armstrong County News Story - WTAE Pittsburgh - 0 views
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Energy Net on 08 Feb 10"Some residents of the Apollo area say in a new lawsuit that they developed cancer from exposure to radiation and toxic chemicals at the former Babcock & Wilcox plant, Team 4's Paul Van Osdol reported Wednesday. It's closed now, but the property in Parks Township, Armstrong County, was once the site of the largest private nuclear processing facility in the country. Neighbors and former workers there say all the radiation left them poisoned. A new lawsuit says that "repeated releases of hazardous and radioactive substances into the area" around the plant caused three area residents to develop cancer. One of those people -- Eva Myers -- lived 400 feet from the plant. She died of lung cancer two years ago."