Frank Young said...
Livermore Lab Workers May Be Exposed To Toxic Dust
"Seward said the laboratory is surveying 160 buildings looking for beryllium contamination. Already, they've found some startling results: 20 buildings with levels above acceptable, and a few with "more extensive" contamination.
And now they're assessing how many more workers were exposed: So far, 250 have been identified as having past exposure to beryllium and another 350 are being watched."
Comments
They really ought to just close everything down except NIF and Terascale pay the remaining employees a two year severance and send all the real work to Los Alamos. The labs time has passed. This country still needs a good weapons lab not two mediocre ones!
Let's see, Bechtel came through and did audits to see what was going on with the lab. They even wrote up our building for having goose dropping in front of the entrances. They assumed the responsibility for a lot more more money than what UC was getting, so I don't feel too broken up about LLNLs plight.
UC was an absentee landlord both at Livermore and LANL. You want to blame someone, you blame the people who worked at the lab. We ran the labs and UC gave us some benefits making us think we were UC employees.
Either through ignorance (we didn't know better) or through a misplaced sense of urgency (the job must go on damned the employee) we may have brought this on ourselves.
User of daily inhaler.
lists sampled and contaminated buildings. It is an internal web site.