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🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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While managers and government officials outwardly assured Fernald workers that everything was safe at the plant, internal documents show many knew that wasn’t the case.
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0:00.0 | Previously unaccused. |
0:04.2 | I think the interview is about over. |
0:06.4 | So is it fair to say that the government lied to people here? |
0:11.9 | In the early years, absolutely. |
0:14.2 | It seems so mundane. |
0:16.3 | Yet it seems so evil at the same time or potentially evil. |
0:22.0 | I don't know how much we know about the radiation risk today. |
0:25.9 | My husband said to me, maybe it's time to quit. |
0:28.9 | If I said, I can't, we can't, we can't quit. |
0:33.7 | I remember Hunt and this is accused, the mysterious death of David Box. |
0:38.7 | Larry Hicks was a healthy 33 year old man when he awoke one day in May 1985 and headed |
1:05.3 | to his job as a supervisor at National Lead of Ohio's Fernald Plant. |
1:10.6 | The married father of three and a avid jogger had risen the ranks after working 12 years |
1:15.3 | at the company. |
1:16.6 | It was a solid, reliable job that provided well for his family. |
1:20.8 | But on this day, not quite a year after his coworker David Box apparently disappeared |
1:27.3 | inside of a salt inferno. |
1:30.3 | A piece of machinery malfunctioned overhead during Larry's shift and he was doused in particles |
1:36.2 | of uranium. |
1:38.2 | Fun fact about uranium, it's colorless and odorless and Larry likely didn't know how |
1:43.8 | acutely he'd been exposed. |
1:46.0 | His family certainly didn't. |
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