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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 13. Juni 2011 / Time Line June 13, 2011
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Residents file lawsuit against NFS Erwin nuclear fuel
plant
Attorneys from three states filed a class action lawsuit today
(June 13) against Erwin's Nuclear Fuel Services, claiming emissions
from NFS are to blame for high rates of cancer. The attorneys are
fighting for their clients to get compensation for personal injury
and property damage.
"No one wants to face the truth here and the truth is, I have
highly enriched uranium on my property and I am 21 river miles
downstream," says Park Overall who's one of the main advocates of
the lawsuit against Nuclear Fuel Services. "I began to hear about
all this cancer here, and we started to look into it. These
chemicals and radioactive isotopes are related to particular
cancers that we have too much of in the area." Overall says
Monday's filing of the class action lawsuit is the biggest step so
far for the Erwin Citizens Awareness Network (ECAN). ECAN is a
group that's researched NFS's emissions dating back to 1954.
(Tricities June 13, 2011).
Adkins, et al. v. W.R. Grace & Company, No. 2:11-CV-00173 (E.D.
Tenn.)
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