Radiation accident at Idaho nuclear lab subject of new lawsuit
Source: Associated Press
A new federal lawsuit has been filed involving a 2011 accident at an eastern Idaho nuclear facility that exposed 16 workers to plutonium.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday on behalf of Ralph Stanton. It follows up on a 2013 whistleblower complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Labor by Stanton and then-colleague Brian Simmons.
The complaint says Battelle Energy Alliance created an unsafe work environment at the Idaho National Laboratory and retaliated after Stanton and Simmons raised health and safety concerns. The Department of Labor never took action on the complaints, leading Stanton to file this week’s lawsuit.
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The lawsuit describes how, in the two years following the accident, Battelle “increasingly retaliated against (Stanton) and ultimately terminated him wrongfully” following his whistleblower complaints.
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