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About 200 ORR workers and nearby residents have been ill. To-date, except for the Y-12 workers exposed to beryllium, there is no clearly established cause or causes. Few citizens contest that the workers are ill. The debate is over the probable cause. Because the cause or causes have not been found by the usual medical system including some involvement by occupational physicians, many citizens feel that the ill workers should be studied in a clinically oriented, research environment bringing in the assistance of the appropriate research medical professionals. Until this occurs there will be continued, acrimonious debate over possible causes. Worse, the ill workers will continue to suffer and feel that the "system" has forsaken them.
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These stories are destroying the image of Oak Ridge as a place to live
which has begun to inhibit the industrial recruiting so necessary to the
community as a result of DOE downsizing. Many of the community's long-term
residents, knowing
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