Hanford worker who inhaled plutonium speaks out

It happened during demolition work.

[@Vlad.the.Inhaler]

Galen Winsor used to eat the stuff. How come he lived into his 80s?

[@DicePunk]

Exactly.

[@memorobles7857]

Well, it's not the same to eat a little piece and poop it out later than inhaling particles that remain in your lungs for years

[@DicePunk]

@memorobles7857 he used to swim in the coolant tank. And he used to work around it, handling plutonium unshielded.

[@mysticmarble94]

@@DicePunk The swimming part is not proven. He could as well have made the story up. Secondly, it's not shocking or surprising information either. You can find several videos about nuclear research facilities that explain that water, especially in larger thicknesses, can shield neutrino flow & effectively attenuate gamma rays due to its high hydrogen content, which has a good capacity for absorbing and scattering gamma radiation. That's why it is technically not harmful to swim in the pool as the directly emited radiation only reaches the human body in low energy levels.

[@mysticmarble94]

Radiation isn't the final boss of ways to die. The radiation in accidents will destroy our DNA and a large enough quantity of damaged DNA can cause cancerous tissue. So deadly results only occur through indirect consequences of radiation. But even in such a case, it's not a definitive death sentence. It's just that the chances for cancer and such will have increased dramatically. Take workers in the Chernobyl plant. One of them survived until 2008. Alexander Yuvchenko held open the thick door into the reactor room while two of his co-workers went inside to survey the damage. Obviously his life was plagued with medical issues. He had to be extremely careful about getting oil on his skin when working on cars.

[@nosatisfaction2278]

Should of been on national news.

[@havabrownkittycat7107]

I was the lead compliance officer for an event where over 100 workers were contaminated by Los Alamos and Nevada Test Site managed operations. I was retired early for the privilege of doing my job and reporting it.

[@unbroken1010]

Meaning?

[@tomsmith4907]

@@unbroken1010 best hot dogs ever at lunch that day!! isotopes on a bun!

[@joeyscarseat]

@@unbroken1010 it means he whistleblew and got a lot of money as a result.

[@Maedelrosen]

so they did no decontamination, got regular unqualified for radioactivity demolitionists, set in unreasonable conditions with work threatening deadlines in a gambling win all-lose all pay schedule. typical disgusting capitalism.

[@19accountsremoved41]

Misinformation at its finest

[@unbroken1010]

Any country does this

[@danyo6317]

Have you ever heard of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster?

[@paulanderson7796]

@@danyo6317Nuclear disasters as mythical. It's all about projecting fear.

[@Backyardmech1]

CH2MHILL is now owned by Jacobs. Just my own opinion they should’ve have had abatement crews go in the for any traces of plutonium before knocking buildings down.

[@Regurgitatingnineoclocknews]

Absolutely.

[@jenpsakiscousin4589]

In the early days at Hanford alot more people were contaminated with a he'll of alot more plutonium and they turned out OK.

[@unbroken1010]

Prove it

[@pavlac82]

Prove that radioactivity is danger for health. Watch old videowith Galen Winsor on YT. This is BS.

[@jenpsakiscousin4589]

The Hanford site, especially the finishing plant and the older processing plants had tones of contaminated equipment and infrastructure. Tanks, gloveboxes, air lines, miles of piping etc. I’m surprised the contractors did as well as they did in the cleanup. When DuPont designed most of these buildings, removing them really was not a priority. They did have areas where they could remove transuranics from solid waste materials but just think about how much contaminated material was at that place. Hundreds of gloveboxes in the finishing plant alone, those rubber gloves in the gloveboxes get replaced, that alone adds up to a lot of waste.

[@jenpsakiscousin4589]

Galen Windsor ingesting natural uranium is a lot different that someone having a strong alpha emitter like polonium or Plutonium deep inside lung tissue. I don’t know what kind of precaution the construction workers used. They probably should have some sort of mask or breathing system even running machinery outside. It is impossible to identify and quarantine every particle during a job like that.

[@visiontransformation]

what would Galen Winsor say?

[@natashanonnattive4818]

We need to worry about wifi digital That’s HARMFUL

[@moosestubbings1853]

Welcome to springfield(Mr.burns voice) The simpsons🎼🎷🥁🎻🎵🎙🎶📺

[@steven-vn9ui]

I don not understand how no safety precautions were not in place and followed. What gives the right for these assholes to contaminate these workers and OUR planet. Jail time is needed for those guilty. If I was on a site ran like that I would have left the job for sure

[@derekwall200]

3:02 just another case of a greed

[@asinner8]

So what happened to people infected? It’s been 5 years since this video was posted. Do they all have liver, lung, or bone cancer now? Did some of them die because of their exposure to the uranium?

[@organichuman]

Idk but look up Galen Winsor. He had some things to say about it all. He used to eat uranium and bathe in radioactive water and claimed it was fine.

[@mamasquatch]

When are they going to pay us women living in the community for our thyroids and damaged mitochondrial DNA? Why did they only pay cancer victims and sweep us autoimmune patients aside?

[@natashanonnattive4818]

Go look at the Hiroshima truthers

[@paulanderson7796]

BOLLOCKS. Total BOLLOCKS

[@MrBADISCHL]

Storrys from the midpoint of hell ? I am nobody but I would try it with apherese. ( washing the plasma ) and looking for chromosome damage.

[@MegaOlo33]

kalamliwe malpy

[@blackhawkorg]

Oh my... you knew the job was dangerous when you took it.

[@pooriashams]

Scott Shearer no. Many people don’t know about radiation. I have seen people inhaling bad chemicals without knowing the hazard. The most common one is concrete workers. Just watch the side of the highway where workers are cutting concrete without OSHA approved masks. They’ll get silicosis. So many of these people don’t have proper education and have no knowledge of the danger.

[@Maedelrosen]

@@pooriashams the thing is, it says its dangerous on the package on any concrete and building materials you buy- unless you dont know how to read. Boss is not going to sit everyone down in a conference room of the dangers of the job, thats the sly part of it. the higherups wont tell you about the risks *at the same time* as the workers not finding it out for themselves.

[@unbroken1010]

@@Maedelrosen that should sit that down ffs

[@19accountsremoved41]

This guy's a joke

[@unbroken1010]

Pothead

[@tomsmith4907]

These workers likely took protective equipment off in the hot dirty work environment... Every plant or mill or work site has a few sweaty workers walking around with masks around their necks! dont be one of them! wear it or find a job you can do safely!... in order to clean up these horrible places you have to accept some detectable radioactive particles would leak into the environment....it's impossible to catch every PARTICAL! if you take measurements outside a lot of mines,mills and plants you will find "particles" ...it sucks but it's the way it is!....suck it up and deal with it! clean it up and dont ever do it again!.....when they took the job demolishing the freaking "PLUTONIUM ENRICHMENT BUILDING!!" they accepted the risk and danger under the laws of common sense.....I recognize them as heros for cleaning it up but I do not see them as victims...making it hard for companies to clean these places for fear of lawsuits will only slow down the process getting rid of these eviromental time bombs! ...acting SHOCKED that you inhaled plutonium particles while demolishing the "PLUTONIUM ENRICHMENT PLANT!" is kinda stupid.... accept the publics appreciation for your work cleaning it up and maybe campaign for extra pay but dont act dumb!