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LAS VEGAS, May 19 (UPI) -- A Nevada woman says her long-running battle for compensation for her husband's death has become a crusade to expose U.S. Department of Labor intransigence. Bonnie Mattick told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the agency has refused to authorize the $150,000 in she feels she is owed after her husband died of cancer she says was caused by his work with toxic and radioactive materials at the Nevada Test Site.
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A former Energy Department contract employee has been denied an illness compensation claim solely because he worked at Area 51, though federal officials years ago told base contract workers they would receive the same consideration as Nevada Test Site workers who became ill. And that makes Fred Dunham think the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program should be scrapped for a more fair system that follows a course Congress intended.
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PORT HOPE - The burden of proof to determine whether past or present uranium exposure has negatively impacted residents’ health is the federal government’s responsibility, not that of a volunteer citizens’ group.
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Former workers at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon will host a memorial to deceased nuclear industry workers on Memorial Day this year. Advertisement Vina Colley, a former worker at the plant will host the memorial starting at 10:30 a.m. at Campy Oyo in Portsmouth. Organizers in Piketon will join other workers at 14 nuclear sites throughout the country to remember former workers who have died due to illnesses they may have contracted while working at nuclear facilities operated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Beginning in 1957, Pinellas County was home to a plant that built triggers for nuclear weapons. Some of that Largo plant’s former workers claim that they were exposed to toxic substances and are fighting for compensation. Dave Bossard worked at the General Electric Neutron Devices plant for 34 years and eventually became a supervisor. His duties included supervising the area that contained the chemical storage building. He said the workers were exposed to 473 “deadly toxins … chemicals and radiation” that are still causing diseases in former workers.
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FOUR major public hospitals are being ordered to stop leaking radioactive waste into the sewerage system. The waste is mainly from the radioactive iodine used to treat thyroid cancer patients. Sydney Water has demanded that the hospitals -- Royal North Shore, Liverpool, Nepean and Concord -- install decay tanks to protect workers from exposure.
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TAMPA - John Pool wants to know why the U.S. Department of Labor is saying no. Pool, 79, worked at the former General Electric Plant in Largo from 1970-73. The facility produced triggers for nuclear bombs, and former employees say they may have been exposed to radiation and carcinogenic chemicals.
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Eliza Johnson knows that all the money in the world can't raise her husband and daughter from their graves. If it could, she'd find a way to earn, beg, borrow or steal enough to see Fruitie Johnson and Deborah Lawhorn again. She'd love to know how good it would feel to talk to them once more, to laugh, to have a reason to cook a big meal and lay it out on the empty table in her wood-paneled dining room. To Johnson, that would be a victory, not a check from the companies she holds responsible for the cancers that killed them and others in Apollo, Leechburg, Vandergrift and Parks Township.
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A pensioner who says he was a "guinea pig" during atomic bomb tests in the 1950s is suing the Government. Ex-serviceman Derek Connelly, of Churchill Road, Kidlington, says he was made to stand just wearing his shorts and socks to witness nuclear and hydrogen bombs being set off in the Pacific Ocean 50 years ago.
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TOMSK, April 30 (RIA Novosti) -- The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to pay around $95,000 in compensation to residents of a Siberian town over the length of time taken to consider claims connected to a 1990s radiation leak, a local NGO official said on Wednesday. The applicants had earlier sued the Siberian Chemical Combine over a radioactive leak in April 1993 that affected two towns, Georgiyevka and Naumovka.
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TALLEVAST -- One month after concerned community leaders asked for a cancer study, state and local health officials visited Tallevast on Monday to start preliminary plans. The state's quick response gives Tallevast hope their concerns will be heard, said Laura Ward, president of FOCUS, an advocacy group for residents. Tallevast residents believe the high numbers of cancers and neurological disorders in their community are linked to contamination traced back to a former beryllium plant. Now known to cover more than 200 acres, the toxic waste includes industrial chemicals known to cause cancer and other illnesses.
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WASHINGTON, April 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The AFL-CIO Metal Trades Department (MTD) is calling for congressional oversight hearings to investigate the failure of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICP) to provide adequate benefits to nuclear weapons workers and survivors victimized by radiation or exposure to toxic agents in their work environment.
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Dirk Bartlett, director of government relations for EnergySolutions, today released a copy of the incident report the company submitted to the state earlier this year following a contamination incident at the Bear Creek Road waste-processing facility. The worker who opened the package received by far the highest radiation dose (about 2.8 rems), although a few others were in the area at the time.
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Concerns that mining exposes workers and the public to elevated levels of radioactivity have been raised since at least the early 1980s. And the Florida Institute of Phosphate Research has sponsored about a dozen studies in response.
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In the wan light of a snowy spring morning, belongings scattered on the floor of an abandoned kindergarten speak of a time before the children of Pripyat lost their innocence. Musty sandals and ballet slippers for tiny feet. Cardboard pictures of Lenin as a young boy and as a youthful leader—the Soviet equivalent of baseball cards. In the next room, dolls in various states of dress and dismemberment, lolling on metal cots where the children once napped. Finally, on the gymnasium wall, photos of the children themselves—doing calisthenics, climbing monkey bars, balancing on boards.
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Veterans from Lincolnshire who fear they were used as human guinea pigs in British nuclear tests have joined a legal fight for millions of pounds in compensation. Three former Cold War servicemen from the county have joined forces with the Atomic Veterans' Group, which has issued a High Court writ against the Ministry of Defence.
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LAKIN — Public water supplies in nine communities in Kansas consistently have registered uranium levels above federal standards, with one city showing a level almost three times higher than recommended, officials said Wednesday. But Joe Blubaugh, spokesman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said that while long-term exposure to high levels of uranium in drinking water can lead to kidney damage and cancer, the current high levels of uranium didn't pose an immediate threat to the public.
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The doctor who treated the “Atomic Man” contaminated at Hanford in the nation’s worst radiological accident speaks today in Richland about Harold McCluskey’s care. McCluskey was caught in the August 1976 explosion of a glove box at Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant when nitric acid was added to a column containing resin and radioactive americium. McCluskey spent five months in a steel-and-concrete isolation tank at the Hanford Emergency Decontamination Facility in Richland.
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The recent German study of cancers around nuclear sites is the only one that identifies a clear relation between nuclear facility proximity and excess incidence of childhood leukemia, France's Institute of Nuclear Protection and Safety, IRSN, found in a review of epidemiological studies around nuclear sites. Dominique Laurier of IRSN's Epidemiology Laboratory said April 22 that the institute's review of 198 single-site epidemiological studies in 10 countries had confirmed the "persistence" of leukemia clusters in children around three sites: Sellafield and Dounreay in the UK, where both reactors and fuel cycle installations were operated, and Germany's Kruemmel nuclear power plant.
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A Royal Navy veteran from Dundee is suing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) over the radiation he was exposed to during atomic bomb testing. John Gilchrist, 72, was involved in two tests at the Montebello Islands off north western Australia in 1956.
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