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Friday, October 9, 2015
Massive Hanford radiation
downwinders case is closing
RICHLAND, Wash. — A
long-running federal court
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contend their health was
damaged by radioactive
emissions from the Hanford
Nuclear Reservation is
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years ago have either reached
settlement agreements or
dropped their claims.
About 15 years ago, there
were as many as 5,000 people
claiming their health was
harmed by the emissions.
The Tri-City Herald
reported Thursday that the
majority of the claims were
for thyroid cancer or other
thyroid conditions.
The U.S. Department
of Energy, which owns
Hanford, said Wednesday it
was pleased the matter had
been resolved.
Hanford for decades
made plutonium for nuclear
weapons, and now is engaged
in cleaning up the nation’s
largest collection of nuclear
waste.
Attorney Richard Eymann
of Spokane, who represented
numerous downwinders, said
he was disappointed in the
outcome.
“I’m not happy at all,”
Eymann said. “From the
very beginning we dealt with
a scorched-earth defense.
These people were never
fairly compensated for the
extent of their injuries and
how they suffered from their
injuries over many, many
years.”
During World War II and
the early years of the Cold
War, radioactive iodine
was released into the air at
Hanford during the produc-
tion of plutonium.
The iodine drifted over
communities
surrounding
Hanford, where it settled
to the ground on crops and
pastures where cows grazed.
Children were particularly
at risk of developing disease
years later if they drank
milk contaminated with
radioactive iodine, which
concentrated in the thyroid
gland.
Andy Nelson/The Register-Guard via AP
Saying goodbye to classmate, friend
Tamie Mansanti, of Roseburg, attends an event organized through social media to support the families of
the Umpqua Community College mass shooting in Roseburg on Oct. 8. People lined the street to hold signs
and wave flags near Church on the Rise church where funeral services were being held for school shooting
victim Jason Johnson.
BRIEFLY
6 workers injured
in explosion at
Columbia dam
Planned Parenthood
responds to Oregon
Republicans
MATTAWA, Wash.
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Grant Public Utility District
say six employees have
been injured in an explosion
at Priest Rapids Dam on the
Columbia River.
Utility district
spokesman Thomas
Stredwick says the
employees were injured
Thursday afternoon in an
explosion attributed to
electrical equipment at the
dam near Mattawa.
The six have various
levels of injuries with
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and others transported by
ambulance. Harborview
Medical Center
spokeswoman Susan Gregg
says the Seattle hospital is
expecting two people from
the explosion to arrive there
for treatment.
Stredwick says the
structure of the dam is
stable and no one down the
river is at risk.
Multiple agencies
responded to the incident.
SALEM (AP) —
Planned Parenthood of the
Columbia Willamette is
reimbursed for expenses,
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collection of tissue after
abortions, according to its
president and CEO.
Republican state
representatives submitted
questions to the local
Planned Parenthood and
Oregon Health & Science
University after they were
stopped by Democrats from
holding a public hearing.
OHSU responded
Monday and Planned
Parenthood the following
day, the Statesman Journal
reported.
Stacy Cross, the CEO of
Planned Parenthood of the
Columbia Willamette, said
the center offers women
receiving abortions the
option to donate tissue
to two studies being
conducted at OHSU. One
study is researching how to
prevent ectopic pregnancy
and the other is researching
health risks related to poor
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Cross said the women’s
reproductive health center
is not paid for individual
tissue samples.
“The only funds PPCW
receives are designed to
reimburse it for certain
expenses associated with
participating in the studies,”
Cross said.
The letter from OHSU
says it paid the center
$11,500 for use of an exam
room, storage and access
to an ultrasound machine.
It also paid a study
coordinator to manage
patient consent and up to
$2,500 for medical supplies.
The university’s letter
was co-written by president
Joseph Robertson and
Daniel Dorsa, its senior vice
president for research.
They said that for the
study researching ectopic
pregnancy, OHSU receives
placental tissue from
PPCW that’s less than
one centimeter across and
comes from pregnancies
at less than seven weeks
gestation.
For the study on
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receives from PPCW about
a centimeter of tissue
from a woman’s uterine
lining and a centimeter
of placental tissue from
pregnancies between six
and 14 weeks.
Oregon justices
decline to exclude
Oracle execs
PORTLAND (AP) —
The Oregon Supreme Court
has denied a request by
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of its executives excluded
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state over the failure of
the Cover Oregon health
insurance exchange.
Oracle asked the high
court in August to overturn
a ruling by a Marion
County judge, who said the
employees should remain
defendants in the lawsuit.
Oregon sued Oracle
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including co-CEO Safra
Catz, in their personal
capacities a year ago. The
state alleges they conspired
to enrich themselves and
made false claims.
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TUESDAY
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nice
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70° 44°
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TEMPERATURE
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LOW
70°
67°
93° (1911)
55°
42°
21° (1916)
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Last year to date
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69°
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56°
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26° (1931)
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Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
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New
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Oct 12
Oct 20
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73° 41°
Seattle
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Spokane
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Tacoma
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Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
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64/60
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Enterprise
Hermiston
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Salem
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John Day
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Ontario
Eugene
Bend
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Caldwell
Burns
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Medford
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Times of clouds and sun; cloudy across the
north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny to
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who reached settlement
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and Rockwell International.
Just six of the plaintiffs
had their cases heard by
a federal court jury, after
U.S. District Court Judge
William Fremming Nielsen
ordered that a bellwether
trial be conducted in 2005
in the hopes that getting jury
decisions on a few cases
would provide guidance to
settle most other claims out
of court.
Of the six cases that
went to trial, three of those
plaintiffs had noncancerous
thyroid disease and the
jury awarded no money.
The remaining three cases
were for downwinders
with thyroid cancer. A jury
awarded a combined total
of $545,000 to two of those
downwinders and split on the
third case.
In an early settlement
offer that was made public,
the defense offered $150,000
for thyroid cancer patients,
$40,000 for patients with
underactive thyroids and
$10,000 for patients with
thyroid nodules, but only if
they were exposed to certain
levels of radiation.
The U.S. Centers for
Disease Control spent more
than $20 million on an epide-
miological study released in
1999 that found no evidence
that any kind of thyroid
disease increased among
those who were children
living downwind of Hanford
when radioactive iodine was
being released.
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National Summary: Rain will dampen the Northeast today, with a few thunderstorms in
the mid-Atlantic and Tennessee Valley. Spotty storms will impact Florida and the southern
Plains. Rain will move into the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 102° in Thermal, Calif.
Low 26° in Saranac Lake, N.Y.
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