Description from the Online Ethics Center:

The incident that began Inez Austin's reputation as a whistleblower was her refusal, in June of 1990, to approve a plan to pump radioactive waste from an aging underground single-shell tank at the Hanford Site to a double-shell tank. She believed the process to be too dangerous to certify. The events that followed changed her life forever. Although she came to be regarded highly by environmental and ethics groups, she was subjected to a career-destroying combination of harassment, bureaucratic maneuvering, and ostracization. Several years later, a second whistleblowing incident would lead to the end of her work at the Hanford Site.

This Online Ethics Center presents the case of Inez Austin as an example of someone who followed her ethical convictions in the face of overwhelming adversity and refused to sanction a procedure she believed to be unsafe.

Contents:
I. Introduction
II. Blowing the Whistle
III. Austin Sees an Unacceptable Risk
IV. Retaliation and Austin's Fight for Her Job
V. Whistleblowing Round Two
VI. Final Fallout
VII. Inez Austin's Message to the Public
Inez Austin Timeline
Inez Austin and Hanford Site Links

http://www.onlineethics.org/Topics/ProfPractice/Exemplars/BehavingWell/austinindex.aspx

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