US Atomic Energy Commission’s secret radiation tests on humans
the secret studies left enough radioactive material in the patients’ bodies to readily induce cancer………
More on Human Experimentation « Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 28 Dec 10, Atomic Energy Commission Radiation Experiments.
In December, 1993, Secretary of Energy Hazel O’Leary made a disturbing announcement: since the 1940′s, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission had been sponsoring a series of tests on the effects of radiation on the human body.
American citizens who had checked into hospitals for a variety of ailments had been secretly injected with varying amounts of plutonium and other radioactive materials without their knowledge.
Most patients thought it was “just another injection,” but the secret studies left enough radioactive material in the patients’ bodies to readily induce cancer………
More on Human Experimentation « Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog
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