Jul 30
For decades, workers at a nuclear facility in Kentucky were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Management assured them nothing was wrong. Then four friends risked everything to reveal the truth.
Issue no. 178, “Toxic Lies,” is now available:
Was the dust bad for the environment? Maybe. But everyone at the plant acted like it was harmless. To prove this, a plant manager once sprinkled some on his sandwich and ate it. Jenkins and his coworkers rarely wore respirators—only when the quantity of dust “got so bad that breathing or seeing was impossible,” Jenkins later said. They never changed out of their white coveralls for lunch. Dust clung to their clothing, spreading radiation wherever they went.
