Article Title: 17 years after cancer diagnosis, Veterans Affairs grants Santa Rosa man service-related benefits
Article Excerpt: "Paul Critchett battled Veterans Affairs for years, certain his terminal cancer diagnosis stemmed from radiation exposure. On Feb. 21, the government acknowledged it. ...he believed was a straightforward assignment: Repair a stripped pipe fitting. What made it less straightforward was the location of the pipe: Inside a reactor compartment on a nuclear submarine.
Something on that day went horribly awry, and Critchett was exposed to a level of radiation so high it could not be tracked on the pocket dosimeter used to monitor radiation levels in real time. ..."
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