K4. Bjarnie Paulson was one of a 600-man military detachment ordered to participate in the cleanup of a reactor accident at Chalk River in 1958. He contracted multiple cancers as a result of bodily contamination with radioactive materials during the cleanup. It took him years of hearings before he overcame the wall of denial from Canadian nuclear authorities and collected a pension for the damages he sustained. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 16 August 1981.
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