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Article: No illnesses reported in connection with Elk River nuclear site; Energy department swamped with calls about nuclear-materials plants.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- January 13, 2001
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When her husband died in 1996 of lung cancer, Fern Campbell said, it never dawned on her that his illness might have been caused by his profession: In the mid-1960s, Robert Campbell managed the nuclear reactor in Elk River, Minn.
On Friday, from her home in Rockville, Md., Campbell said she doubts a connection exists, but she was making plans to call the U.S. Department of Energy just in case.
Apparently she was not alone.
A day after the department identified the Elk River site as one of 317 where 600,000 workers might have been exposed to nuclear materials, the agency was swamped with telephone calls.
So far, however, federal ...