Colo. Landowners Win $554M in Nuclear Suit

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/feb/15/021502979.html

DENVER (AP) - Two companies that ran the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant exposed neighbors to plutonium through their negligence, endangering people's health and contaminating their property, a federal jury concluded.

The jury recommended Dow Chemical Co. and the former Rockwell International Corp. be ordered to pay $553.9 million in damages, an amount that is likely to be lowered by the judge but still be in the hundreds of millions.

"This isn't a windfall, this is making up for what these people lost," said Bruce DeBoskey, an attorney who spent 12 years on the case.

Dow said it would appeal.

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[jpak]

1. and in other news....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2110028

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2. Both of those stories are weapons related, not nuclear energy related.

[jpak]

3. Plutonium releases aren't environmental news????

Mortality and morbidity among uranium miners isn't environmental news????

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4. Yes, they are environmental news.

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5. Sometimes easy to forget

that this isn't really the "Solar vs. nuclear and what about this ethanol stuff, then" Forum. :)

[jpak]

6. SEZ WHO????

:evilgrin:

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7. Over in that other thread...

there were some comments asserting that these two stories constituted proof that nuclear energy was too dangerous to pursue. Which I felt the need to rebuke. Which didn't come off very clearly, in this thread.