I am looking for a lawsuit or any legal action taken by employee who
had a long term exposure to tritium (radioactive hydrogen, found
mainly in nuclear plants)in general or tritium gas in particular and
got cancer.

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Request for Question Clarification by jumpingjoe-ga on 04 Feb 2003 08:24 PST

Which country or state are you interested in?

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Clarification of Question by tritium-ga on 04 Feb 2003 09:31 PST

I am looking for case in any country (could be US, europe etc...)

Dear tritium-ga;

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question.

Apparently you’ve posed a pretty challenging question here because it
wasn’t easy to dredge these cases up. After reading many case
summaries, I did manage to find a single case that meets all the
criteria you established. The other three were either filed on by an
unaffected entity on behalf of the exposed persons (plant employees
and/or residents) or were filed (or attempted) directly by affected
resident(s) themselves, seeking relief for themselves and other
affected residents and plant employees, in a class action.

The most ominous case I found, and the only one I found in which the
“employees” filed a lawsuit themselves alleging that negligence on
behalf of their employer was the reason for their long term exposure,
was this one – not only because of their claim that exposure to
tritium caused their diseases, but because of the terrifying events
leading up to the way in which these men were allegedly exposed. I
found the facts in this case absolutely astonishing – mind boggling,
in fact - and while reading it I became increasingly amazed that this
frightening incident hasn’t been more widely spoken of in the media.
You can bet that I’ll be reading up on this one a LOT more:

FINDLAW
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&case=/data2/circs/7th/953475.html
In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit 
No. 95-3475 
GREGORY MAAS, FRANK FELINSKI, RICHARD SCIARAFFA, and GREGORY
BINNEBOSE,
Plaintiffs-Appellants, 
v. 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
Defendant-Appellee. 

In this case the state of Connecticut filed on behalf of those who had
been exposed to tritium:

“Nuclear Contamination In Connecticut”
‘Dangerous practices at the Millstone nuclear power plants ‘
http://zena.secureforum.com/Znet/zmag/articles/steinbergjulaug98.htm
“On November 18, 1997, Connecticut Attorney General Blumenthal filed a
$1 million lawsuit against NU, alleging that it “thumbed its corporate
nose at Connecticut’s environmental laws.” The suit contended that
Mill­stone dumped amounts of hazardous chemicals exceeding state and
federal limits into Long Island Sound hundreds of times between 1992
and 1996.”

In this matter, class action civil actions were attempted on behalf of
several hundred thousand residents. The court denied the privilege to
file a class action suit.

“The Oak Ridger Online”
http://www.oakridger.com/stories/092402/new_0924020028.html
Fannie Ball, et al. v. Union Carbide Corp., et al., and Steven L.
Heiser, et al. v. Union Carbide -- were filed in January 2001.

Last but not least, Three Mile Island:

FINDLAW
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&case=/data2/circs/3rd/992315p.html
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT 
Nos. 96-7623/7624/7625 
ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA (Civil No. 88-cv-01452)


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“The Oak Ridger Online”
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“Nuclear Contamination In Connecticut”
‘Dangerous practices at the Millstone nuclear power plants ‘
http://zena.secureforum.com/Znet/zmag/articles/steinbergjulaug98.htm



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Request for Answer Clarification by tritium-ga on 14 Feb 2003 23:23 PST

thank you for the in-depth rely, I appreciate your efforts. 
If I understand correcvtly, you did not fine a lawsuit filed by an
employee of some nuclear fascility who was exposed to tritium for a
long time (10years) and got cancer. Did you look this direction as
well?

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Clarification of Answer by tutuzdad-ga on 15 Feb 2003 04:14 PST

Dear tritium-ga; 

Correct. That is the type of information I was looking for. However,
if you have some more specific information you'd like to share that
may lead me onto a specific case, I'd be happy to give it another
look. If you have names, places businesses, dates, names of the court
or anything else helpful I'd take a look at those things for you.

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

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