A Nuclear Paradox: Energysolutions Ceo Is Attempting to Change Opinions On Radioactive Waste

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When EnergySolutions CEO Steve Creamer was growing up in the small southern Utah town of Monroe, he and his family would watch the smoke from mushroom clouds rise into the sky as the federal government conducted nuclear testing in the Nevada desert.

The whole western sky would have a green glow for several weeks after the tests, Creamer recalls. In the summer when his family would drive along the highway to Zion National Park, state troopers would warn drivers to roll up their windows to avoid inhaling the fumes from the green smoke that was blowing over the area.

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A Nuclear Paradox: Energysolutions Ceo Is Attempting to Change Opinions On Radioactive Waste

At the time, they had little understanding of how profoundly their lives would be affected by those plumes of toxic smoke. Years later, Creamer's father died of lymphoma that his son believes may have been a result of those days downwind of the atomic testing range.

Steve Creamer says his work at EnergySolutions, a nuclear-waste disposal and management company, was motivated by his family's experience as downwinders.

"My dad died at the same age I am right now: 56," he says. "My mother and my family will always believe that we were affected by 'the downwinder's,' and what we're trying to do is keep tha...

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