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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/03/rocky-flats-dow-chemical_n_104974.htmlRocky Flats: Dow Chemical And Rockwell International Billed $925M For Contamination At Nuclear Site
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Posted: 06/11/2008 5:12 am EDT Updated: 05/25/2011 12:35 pm EDT
DENVER — Two companies that were contractors at the now-defunct Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant have been ordered to pay $925 million to residents who claimed contamination blown from the facility endangered people's health and devalued their property.
Dow Chemical Co. on Tuesday denied wrongdoing and said it will appeal. The other contractor, Rockwell International Corp., has in part been purchased by Boeing Co., which said it had no liability for the site.
A federal judge on Monday ordered Dow to pay $653 million and Rockwell $508 million in compensatory damages, but capped the amount to be collected at $725 million. Dow and Rockwell also were ordered to pay exemplary damages of $111 million and $89 million, respectively.
The lawsuit, filed by a group of homeowners, affects up to 13,000 people who owned land near the former plant when it shut down in 1989 because of safety violations. The lawsuit claimed the companies intentionally mishandled radioactive waste and then tried to cover it up.
Judge John L. Kane stayed his judgment pending the appeals. Boeing is responsible for Rockwell's portion of the judgment, according to Kane's order.
Boeing spokesman Dan Beck said Rockwell retained responsibility for any Rocky Flats claims when Boeing obtained its defense and space businesses in 1996.
Dow spokesman Chris Huntley said the company operated the site "in a manner that was safe and consistent with the standards applicable at that time.
"We didn't do anything that was wrong," Huntley said.
Both companies' spokesmen said the Department of Energy had agreed to be responsible for any settlements or judgment costs.
DOE spokesman Andy Beck said the agency's legal department has not had a chance to review Kane's order.
The trial in the case ended in Feburary 2006. The federal jury decided the two contractors damaged land around the plant through negligence that exposed thousands of property owners to plutonium and increased their risk of health problems.
Dow Chemical operated Rocky Flats for the Department of Energy from the 1950s until 1975. Rockwell ran it from 1975 until 1989, when the plant closed. The plant made plutonium triggers for nuclear warheads.
Violations documented by state and federal officials included the outdoor storing of barrels of waste oil and solvents contaminated with plutonium. State health officials have said some of those barrels leaked and contaminated the surrounding soil, which later blew downwind.
The federal government has since spent $7 billion to clean up the site and turn it into a wildlife refuge.
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http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25174934/rocky-flats-workers-no-longer-must-prove-cancersHealth
Rocky Flats workers no longer must prove cancers are work-related
By Electa Draper
The Denver Post
Posted: 02/18/2014 07:03:45 PM MST5 Comments | Updated: 6 months ago
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Former workers at Golden's Rocky Flats Plant, which manufactured plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons, no longer have to reconstruct their own personal histories of radiation exposure in order to receive medical compensation.
It is now presumed that, if they worked at the Cold War machine shop or other designated nuclear weapons sites for at least 250 days between April 1, 1952, and Dec. 31, 1983, their cancers — if one of 22 specified by the government — are work-related.
Covered diseases include multiple myeloma and cancers of the brain, breast, colon, thyroid and liver, among others, if onset was at least five years after first exposure.
"This is very good news, but I'm also very frustrated it's taken this many years for the government to do what was always blatantly obvious," said former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez of Arvada, who advocated for workers. "I fear some people aren't around to finally receive their benefits."
After years of petitioning, Rocky Flats workers were made part of a Special Exposure Cohort on Jan. 11 by designation of the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
They are now eligible for a less-cumbersome claims process under federal law. The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 provides medical benefits to Department of Energy nuclear weapons workers or their survivors. They could also receive $150,000 in compensation in addition to coverage of medical expenses.
The U.S. Department of Labor will host two town hall meetings Wednesday and two Thursday to introduce workers and their families to their new status.
Terrie Barrie, spokeswoman for the Alliance of Nuclear Workers Advocacy Groups, said the new cohort status should help at least 300 people who have cancer, but that the final number is difficult to estimate.
Former Rocky Flats workers have filed about 6,000 claims, but two-thirds have been denied, Barrie said. To date, 2,347 Rocky Flats claimants have received a total of $304 million, the U.S. Department of Labor reports.
Rocky Flats museum
Gene McCracken exhibits a box that was used for training employees who handled plutonium at the former Rocky Flats site on July 10, 2013, in Arvada, Colorado. The box is now a part of the Rocky Flats Cold War Museum at the Jehn Center in Olde Town Arvada. McCracken worked at the nuclear production facility for 30 years. (Anya Semenoff, The Denver Post)
Federal authorities have rejected earlier attempts to include the majority of Rocky Flats workers in the cohort. Barrie, co-petitioner in the most recent attempt, said the decision does nothing to help her husband, former Rocky Flats worker George Barrie, because he doesn't have cancer.
"We're glad of that. We're thankful for every day," she said.
George Barrie was 27 when he started at the plant in 1982. He worked there until he quit in 1989, the same year a joint raid by the FBI and Environmental Protection Agency shut down operations at Rocky Flats so they could collect evidence of violation of federal laws.
"It was a mess out there," Barrie said. "None of the workers could talk about it. They were lied to. They were told it was safe."
She said her husband ingested plutonium and americium at the plant. An alarm failed to alert him to a leaking gasket in his glove box, a sealed container designed to allow one to manipulate hazardous material without contact. He was in the break room, she said, when they tracked him down because radiation monitors had detected contamination.
When he attempted to claim workers' compensation in 1995, she said, "we were blown away" by lawyers representing the plant.
George, now 58, has suffered many chronic illnesses since the mid-1980s, including chronic atrophic gastritis, fibromyalgia, arthritis, degenerative bone diseases and joint pain.
"These guys, in a very real sense, are among the bravest of our Cold War warriors," Beauprez said. "They are heroes. They deserve heroes' accolades. The deterrent (of U.S. nuclear capabilities) helped break the back of the Soviet Union."
Electa Draper: 303-954-1276, edraper@denverpost.com or twitter.com/electadraper
Town hall meetings
The U.S. Department of Labor is hosting four town hall meetings, 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesday and at the same times Thursday to provide information on the claims process, to answer questions and receive comments. The meetings will be held at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 68, 5660 Logan St. in Denver.
For additional information about the meetings, or to schedule an appointment for help filing a claim, contact the department's Denver Resource Center toll-free at 866-540-4977. These events are open to the public. Registration is not required.
Key dates in the history of Rocky Flats
It is presumed that employees who worked at Rocky Flats or other designated nuclear sites for at least 250 days between April 1, 1952, and Dec. 31, 1983, and have one of 22 specified cancers, have work-related illnesses.
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