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SaintLouisBlues Donating Member (755 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:11 PM
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Workers got huge doses of radiation
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Cold War-era nuclear workers at Mallinckrodt Chemical Co. in
St. Louis received doses of radiation up to 2,400 times those
considered acceptable today, according to an unprecedented
government report.

As high as that level is, incomplete data means that actual
exposure levels at the defunct nuclear fuel facility north of
downtown may have been even worse.

Dusty, sloppy and hazardous conditions were routine at
Mallinckrodt's uranium-processing plant, which operated from
1942 to 1957, according to a report presented at a meeting in
St. Louis on Wednesday. One section describes a worker
scooping uranium by hand with a piece of cardboard because
mechanized equipment had failed.

"I would characterize this as a pretty messy operation," said
Jim Neton, a health physicist with the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health, which ordered the report as
part of a federal nuclear workers' compensation program.

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From the story I remember, old man Mallinckrodt was considered very patriotic, and when the government
was looking for someone to process uranium for the first reactor at the University of Chicago
he stepped-up, although no one knew how to do it. Today, there are many contaminated sites around town from Manhattan Project uranium production.

Today Mallinkcrodt (Tyco) makes radioactive medical dye here in St. Louis. People I know who work there
can no longer stand the place since Tyco took over. Their 401K's were heavy on Tyco when their criminal
behavior became public and the stock nose-dived.
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