Cold War Poison: The Paducah Legacy - By James R. Carroll and James Malone

A three day series of articles on the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant published June 25, June 26 and June 27, 2000.

Day 1

• Decades of deception: Uranium's broken promise - By James R. Carroll and James Malone
• Uranium plant's toll on health, environment coming to light - By James R. Carroll and James Malone
• Former worker now believes paycheck came with a price - By James Malone
• Plentiful Jobs, Good Pay: 'Almost overnight, Paducah became the promised land' - By James Malone
• Reversing a Longtime Stand: U.S. says radiation caused illnesses - By James Malone
• Secrecy at the Top: Workers weren't told about animal experiments - By James Malone
• Current, Former Employees Screened: Doctors find lung diseases possibly linked to exposure at work - By James R. Carroll
• Compensation for Job-Related Illnesses: Plan to give workers lump sum and/or benefits finds favor in Congress - By James R. Carroll
• History reveals ignorance, concealment, peril

Day 2

• Toxins altering life in fragile ecosystem - By James R. Carroll and James Malone
• Cleanup: Elusive, terribly expensive - By James R. Carroll
• Researcher has Hometown Interest: Raccoons show scientists contaminants are accumulating - By James R. Carroll
• Water Tests Ignore Plutonium: Monitoring gaps let hazards go undetected - By James R. Carroll
• Is contamination being underreported? - By James R. Carroll

Day 3

• Kentucky has gone easy on uranium plant - By James Malone And James R. Carroll
• Neighboring States: Tennessee, Ohio push U.S. harder to obey the rules - By James Malone
• Interlocking, Overlapping, Disconnected: Maze of agencies leads to confusion, conflict - By James R. Carroll
• Freedom of Information: Quest for records can be frustrating - By James Malone
• Battles Fought in Court: State, U.S. agencies clashed repeatedly on environmental issues - By James Malone

James Malone, 48, has been the C-J's Paducah
-based reporter since 1993. He also has worked for newspapers in Ashland, Middlesboro, Frankfort and Mount Sterling.

James R. Carroll, 48, of Alexan-
dria, Va., has been the Courier-Journal's Washington reporter since 1997 and has been covering the nation's capital since 1983. He also has worked for the Long Beach, Calif., Press-Telegram, the Orange County (Calif.) Register and the Boston Globe.