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AN EX-SERVICEMAN from Leeds who was fighting for compensation over Cold War atomic bomb testing, has died.
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The French government’s nuclear safety expert, Marcel Jurien de la Graviere, says the fallout from the nuclear weapons tests in French Polynesia has not been, as it has been claimed, the cause of illnesses.
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Former Rocky Flats employees demanded Wednesday that the federal government cut red tape and provide quicker compensation for work-related illness.
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OAK RIDGE — About 60 sick workers and their advocates gathered today for a rally to reform the compensation program to help those made ill at the government’s Cold War nuclear weapons facilities.
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Defence chiefs are trying to wriggle out of paying nuclear test veterans compensation - by claiming they are now TOO OLD to remember what happened.
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Bikini Islanders attempting to overturn the recent dismissal of their billion-dollar compensation lawsuit against the United States government have received help from an unexpected source. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week on the rights of terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay could help the Bikini case, which is now pending in a U.S. federal appeals court, Bikini attorney Jonathan Weisgall says.
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Former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons workers plan to join a nationwide rally next week to protest what they call unfair treatment of sick workers who have been denied federal compensation. The Flats workers say they will protest at the Denver office of the U.S. Department of Labor, which runs the compensation program. Other workers and supporters plan similar gatherings in Cleveland, Ohio; Oak Ridge, Tenn.; and Espanola, N.M.
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Nuclear-test veterans say the Government must finally "stop sitting on its hands" now international experts have upheld Massey University research exposing the extent of the genetic damage they suffered.
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One largely unnoticed example is gaining big national attention thanks to a hefty $27.5M USD settlement awarded to the 250 plaintiffs who suffered disease and death due to poor regulation and flaws in the technology. The story begins in Apollo and Parks Township in Armstrong county Pennsylvania, back in the late 1950s. The Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp., eager to profit at the booming trend to exploit nuclear energy, jumped at the chance of opening new facilities to process nuclear fuel. In 1959 they opened two new plants in the respective townships, which processed both uranium and plutonium fuels.
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The widow of an Ottawa veteran of Cold War atomic tests says the federal government has turned a blind eye to the suffering the former soldiers are enduring. Peter Mitchell, who died on Monday after a 15-year battle with various cancers, is the second area veteran of the atomic bomb tests who has died within the past seven months.
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The secretary of Health and Human Services has approved loosening the requirements for more Hanford workers to receive $150,000 compensation for many types of cancer. If Congress does not object within 30 days, the decision by Secretary Michael Leavitt becomes final. "I'm pleased by this decision," said Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., in a statement. The process to ease compensation rules "is very involved and takes longer than I and many others would like, but the right decision has been made for these Hanford workers and their families," he said. "Now we still need a fair resolution for workers since 1968."
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Debbie Chisholm Kerr has no illusions about her share of the $926 million a judge ordered former Rocky Flats contractors to pay neighbors of the long-defunct nuclear weapons plant. "We'll be lucky if we ever see it," Kerr said Tuesday. "I'm realistic. If you got a dollar you'd be lucky. You don't count on it." Kerr is among 13,000 current and former property owners due east of Rocky Flats whose land was polluted by radioactive soil that blew from the plant, where nuclear weapons were manufactured for more than 45 years. Federal District Court Judge John L. Kane ruled Monday that two companies, Rockwell International Corp. and Dow Chemical Co., owe residents nearly $726 million in compensation. Kane also hit the firms with some $200 million in punitive damages.
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June 3 (Bloomberg) -- On May 1, 1962, Lucien Parfait watched the In-Eker Mountain in the southern desert of Algeria tremble and fissure under a black cloud full of dust. Parfait, 68, witnessed one of France's 210 atomic tests from a distance of 800 meters (2,625 feet) with only a white cotton overall for protection. The former French army draftee, who'd dug tunnels in the mountain to place the bomb, is among thousands of people who say they were exposed to radiation from atomic tests between 1960 and 1996 in France's former Algerian colony and in the Polynesian atolls of Mururoa and Fangataufa.
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A final judgment for more than $926 million was entered Monday on behalf of homeowners who lived near the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in 1989 as a long-running lawsuit edged closer to appeal. The landowners, who were downwind from the nuclear facility, sued two companies that operated the site, Rockwell International Corp. and the Dow Chemical Co. In his decision, U.S. District Judge John L. Kane followed the jury's award by granting the landowners up to $725.9 million in compensatory damages, including prejudgment interest. In addition, Kane entered judgment for $110.8 million for "exemplary" damages from Dow and $89.4 million from Rockwell.
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DENVER (AP) — Two companies that worked as contractors with the now-defunct Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant have been ordered to pay $925 million to residents who claimed that contamination blown from the facility endangered people's health and devalued their property. A federal judge on Monday ordered Dow Chemical Co. to pay $653 million and the former Rockwell International Corp. $508 million in compensatory damages, but capped the amount to be collected at $725 million.
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June 3 (Bloomberg) -- On May 1, 1962, Lucien Parfait watched the In-Eker Mountain in the southern desert of Algeria tremble and fissure under a black cloud full of dust. Parfait, 68, witnessed one of France's 210 atomic tests from a distance of 800 meters (2,625 feet) with only a white cotton overall for protection.
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Ever since the Persian Gulf War 15 years ago, countless spokespersons for the US Department of Defense and the US Department of Veterans Affairs have insisted they are intent upon giving hundreds of thousands of soldiers, veterans and war veterans the best medical care
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NEW ORLEANS, May 26 (UPI) -- Attorneys have reached an agreement with ExxonMobil over claims the oil company exposed a Louisiana community to radioactive waste, settlement papers reveal. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Monday that the case relates to contamination allegedly left from three decades of offshore pipe-cleaning east of the Harvey Canal.
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Decades-long residents and natives of an impoverished neighborhood, they are among 2,500 people who joined a lawsuit 2 1/2 years ago against big oil corporations and others over land contaminated by 30 years of offshore pipe cleaning at a site just east of the Harvey Canal, owned by the Grefer family. In 1997, an Orleans Parish jury awarded the Grefers, including retired state Judge Joseph Grefer, $1 billion in punitive damages in their own lawsuit against ExxonMobil because of radioactive contamination that spoiled their land.
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