Udall introduces Senate bill to help sick Rocky Flats and other nuclear workers
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By Laura Frank, Pro Publica 3/31/09 8:00 AM
Rocky Flats nuclear facility worker Charlie Wolf, and wife Kathy, before his first brain tumor surgery in 2002. Wolf died Jan. 28, 2009. (Photo/Kathy Wolf)
The nuclear bombs Charlie Wolf built helped win the Cold War. But his toughest battles came afterward, when he applied to a troubled federal compensation program intended for those whose top-secret work made them sick.
Wolf wound up battling a bureaucratic morass for more than six years โ all while fighting brain cancer that was supposed to have killed him in six months โ trying to prove he qualified for financial and medical aid.