Senator Bob Leeper told an AP reporter recently that nuclear power in the US is very safe. That statement is amazingly dishonest, considering the district Leeper represents.
Seems the good senator is deliberately ignoring the hundreds (thousands?) of injured workers exposed to beryllium and a cocktail of other radioactive elements working at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP), a facility in his hometown.
What happened in Paducah is the subject of a 15 page study published in Western Criminology Review written by Alan S. Bruce and Paul J. Becker is entitled “State-Corporate Crime and the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant”.
