How long will it take to clean up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation once and for all? We have received rosy predictions up until now A new study of nuclear sites across the country shows there is THREE-times more plutonium in southeast Washington than the federal government last estimated. And Hanford's hoard of secrets isn't all buried underground and/or underwater…No one knows how deep the files go, how silent the survivors how sullen the ghosts…
Yesterday there was some “shock & awe” in judge Paul Papak’s Portland courtroom where the defense contractor Kellogg Brown & Root is on trial for poisoning Oregon National Guard veterans . Documents show that within days of the 2003 Iraq invasion, Kellogg, Brown and Root delivered an ultimatum to the Pentagon: Either the Army cover the potential cost of any soldier or civilian killed or harmed on a KBR project – or the defense contractor would not carry out its no-bid contract restoring Iraqi oil. And yet KBR arrogantly insists the case be dismissed. My guest today was David Sugarman the attorney representing the soldiers who were sickened as a result of exposure to hexavalent chromium during their 2003 deployment.
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