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Title: Handford
Post by: duke99301 on Jul 02, 2009, 07:19

I had the pleasure to work with the men they talk about in the link below.
Harold told me he wondered if it was worth 30 bucks a week when they were taking a core drill smaple out of his chest.
JR  told when it happend they were ruuning down the hallway and Harlod was shouting I dead JR I am dead I can taste it. Jr told him to shut up and run.  this little item set off the ARMs at the badge house 5 miles away.
In 1976 we had to go back to the same building when they has a pipe blow up and the lost the entire floor and hall ways. I worked whith the men who ran in to pull the man out. and worked on the clean up.
I learned a lot from all these guys .
Duke.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900923&slug=1094706

Title: Re: Handford
Post by: fueldryer on Jul 02, 2009, 09:17

Excellent article!

Title: Re: Handford
Post by: UncaBuffalo on Jul 04, 2009, 02:03

wow...  :/






Great article!  Thanks.

Title: Re: Handford
Post by: duke99301 on Jul 04, 2009, 08:33

PU is nasty stuff. We cleaned and cleaned with only damp rags and would never get it up some times we would use easy off oven cleaner.So many places in 234-5 z plant where they could not clean it up it was just painted over to contain it.
I worked with a couple guys out there that had life time dose. The man Harold(he was a heck of a crib player) was working in the tanks farms when I meet him he could only work in beta gamma zones. One man I worked with at B plant not allowed in a zone for life when I meet him.
Whats funny is the down winders all saying how bad it is and the cancer rate . The men they talk about in this none had cancer.
  I do not recall anyone gettng cancer from working there.
Oh will have a nice 4th eveyone .

Title: Re: Handford
Post by: UncaBuffalo on Jul 05, 2009, 12:11

Quote from: duke99301 on Jul 04, 2009, 08:33

PU is nasty stuff. We cleaned and cleaned with only damp rags and would never get it up some times we would use easy off oven cleaner.So many places in 234-5 z plant where they could not clean it up it was just painted over to contain it.
I worked with a couple guys out there that had life time dose. The man Harold(he was a heck of a crib player) was working in the tanks farms when I meet him he could only work in beta gamma zones. One man I worked with at B plant not allowed in a zone for life when I meet him.
Whats funny is the down winders all saying how bad it is and the cancer rate . The men they talk about in this none had cancer.
  I do not recall anyone gettng cancer from working there.
Oh will have a nice 4th eveyone .

"Children's doses are estimated as high as 2,500 rem to the thyroid, more than 30,000 times greater than is considered acceptable today for a member of the public to receive in a year."

If you give that kind of dose to that large a population, then statistics have a chance to play out...to the detriment of the downwinders...  The people you work with dodged the bullet...the downwinder I know didn't...  :(