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Hanford nuclear site employees not allowed to speak out about chemical exposure, brain damage, Monday, June 23, 2014 by: Ethan A. Huff,  (NaturalNews) Workers at a large nuclear waste storage facility in south-central Washington are falling gravely ill from exposure to radiation, according to new reports. But a former company insider says they are too afraid to come out about it for fear of losing their jobs.

NBC Right Now in the Tri-Cities reports that Lonnie Poteet, a former truck driver at the federal government’s Hanford Site, suffered major injuries after encountering leaked radiation earlier in the spring. Poteet says site managers failed to notify him that there had been a spill upon arriving to deliver fuel.

“I was already burning from my glove line to my t-shirt line and the side of my face and I was already starting to lose a little bit of vision in my right eye,” recalled Poteet about arriving at the site just hours following the spill.

Rather than post a notice or warn workers directly that a spill had occurred, Poteet says Hanford officials did nothing. Consequently, he and others continued to access the site, even though some crews had been notified to stay home that day while the spill was addressed…….

Many Hanford workers face long-term health damage, says Poteet………

CH2M Hill, the company that was previously in charge of managing the site during the time of the accident, was fined more than $300,000 by the Department of Energy for numerous nuclear safety violations. Today, Washington River Protection Solutions is in charge of cleanup efforts.

Meanwhile, other former workers harmed by nuclear exposure at Hanford are having trouble getting compensation for their injuries. According to KING5 News in Seattle, a government audit found that claims for compensation sometimes take up to seven years to get processed, and many valid applications are being denied.
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