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The perils of Pantex: Hundreds of workers sickened at Texas nuclear weapons plant Read more here: http://www.star-teleg

Emphatic_apparatek

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So, i grew up only 30 minutes from Pantex, and as a kid, we always heard all linds of crazy stories about this place. Ryan, you grew up next to Pantex, as well, so you probably know what im talking about. Apparantly, people have been getting extremely ill...

"AMARILLO
Bob Ruzich, a 31-year worker at the nuclear assembly plant here, rarely got sick. He had to cash out his sick hours every year because he was so healthy.

But in a matter of months, the Pantex Plant worker became so fragile that he had to be rushed by helicopter to the hospital. Ruzich’s 18-year-old son watched from the front yard of their Panhandle home as his father’s motionless body was lifted into the air, said his wife, Barbara Ruzich.

“You do what you have to do,” Barbara Ruzich said. “You don’t sit back and cry.”

Years ago, it was popular for plant workers to tell spouses and other loved ones that they made soap at the nuclear weapons assembly facility on a 16,000-acre parcel. But Pantex now conjures up a different image, as hundreds have suddenly fallen ill or died at the plant, a vital component in the nation’s nuclear weapons program since the 1950s...."

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article49500030.html#storylink=cpy

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article49500030.html
 
There seems to be wide spread corruption of the compensation payout board, delaying payment until the employee dies so that they dont have to pay for the costly healthcare needed when they get sick. This is horrible!!
 
Uhhhh. Ow. My head... :cry:
 
From the article...
Now, more than half are typically handed compensation and medical care because of a prevalence of scientific evidence that their illness was caused by an exposure to plant hazards, records says.

Well, I'd say that about sums it up. You work in a nuclear power plant, you trust your gear and the 'experts' who say it's safe, and everyone at the plant is developing cancer. That's just freaking lovely.
 
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