Fernald Plant Workers Faced Danger from 2nd Source of Radon
October 24th, 2008
Workers at the Fernald uranium processing plant near Cincinnati were exposed to a second, possibly more dangerous source of radon, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have identified six uranium-ore silos in the plant’s production area that they say that exposed 12 percent of the workers there to dangerously high levels of radon. More than half of the workers at the plant would have been exposed to low levels of radon, the study said.