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Program Aims To Find Victims Of Radiation Exposure - cbs4denver.com - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 05 Apr 10
     
    "Some toiled in uranium mines, transported the extracted ore and carried it home on their clothes. Others participated in nuclear weapons testing or lived downwind from test sites. Not all have been compensated, let alone know about a federal program that does so. Larry Martinez knows of thousands of them who live on the Navajo Nation, and this summer he hopes to get some help finding more in the towns that dot the 27,000-square-mile reservation. A new U.S. Department of Justice program will select 30 students to travel the vast reservation and other communities in the Four Corners region to identify potential participants in the federal compensation program."
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Triple awards for downwinders? | Deseret News - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 26 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Several Western senators have introduced a bill seeking to triple the compensation for downwind cancer victims of Cold War atomic testing. The bill would also make it easier to prove claims and would expand eligibility for compensation payments to all of Utah — instead of just 10 counties that now qualify. But opposing the changes is Sen. Orrin Hatch — co-author of the original 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act that created such compensation. "I fear it is overly broad and prohibitively expensive," he said, worrying that high costs might sink the program in budget battles and take current compensation programs with them. Hatch added, "I also believe it is important to continue to base any expansion of the program on sound science" — and add only those changes warranted by new scientific findings.
  • Energy Net on 26 Apr 10
     
    "Several Western senators have introduced a bill seeking to triple the compensation for downwind cancer victims of Cold War atomic testing. The bill would also make it easier to prove claims and would expand eligibility for compensation payments to all of Utah - instead of just 10 counties that now qualify. But opposing the changes is Sen. Orrin Hatch - co-author of the original 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act that created such compensation. "I fear it is overly broad and prohibitively expensive," he said, worrying that high costs might sink the program in budget battles and take current compensation programs with them. Hatch added, "I also believe it is important to continue to base any expansion of the program on sound science" - and add only those changes warranted by new scientific findings."
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Udall nuke-worker bill stalls; another widow denied compensation « Colorado I... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 26 Apr 10 - Cached
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    "Boulder resident Bo Fellinger is disgusted. She recently discovered that the Department of Labor yet again denied her husband Michael's claim to compensation for chronic lung disease. Fellinger doesn't have a good word to say about the department or its Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICPA). Her husband, a grad student at the Ames Laboratory in Iowa, died of lung failure in 2008 at age 62, his claim shuttled back and forth among bureaucrats for nearly four years. A nuke worker monitors waste in South Korea. "The program strikes me as some stupid headless animal," says Fellinger of the red tape she has endured. "Everyone involved seems to be standing in a circle, handing things around to the next person without taking any responsibility for it. The buck never stops anywhere.""
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Downwinder claims - Salt Lake Tribune - 0 views

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    Expand eligibility for program A coalition of senators from the West is proposing to expand the number of Americans eligible for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Program. This would be a compassionate way to extend redress to people in Utah and other states who are not eligible for compensation now. Congress should enact it. Congress created the program in 1990 to compensate Americans who likely suffered cancers and other illnesses caused by nuclear fallout from above-ground testing of atomic weapons in Nevada between 1951 and 1962. It also compensates those who mined, milled and transported uranium for the weapons and got sick as a result. Congress expanded eligibility in 2000. People qualify for an award if they are diagnosed with one or more of 27 medical conditions and prove that they lived in a designated area downwind or worked in the uranium industry during a specific time period. The law covers all states where uranium was mined and processed as well as certain counties in Nevada, Utah and Arizona, where fallout from the nuclear testing was significantly measured. "
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Idaho's agonizing, inhuman 48-year wait | Editorial | Idaho Statesman - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 03 May 10 - Cached
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    "In October 1962, the Cold War reached its crescendo, with the Cuban missile crisis. But in that same year, and in that tense political climate, the federal government saw fit to disband above-ground nuclear weapons tests on the Nevada desert. The risks - to unsuspecting Americans who lived, farmed and raised dairy cattle beneath the shadow of the inevitable radioactive fallout - was considered too extreme. With a 1990 law, the feds began to attempt to right past wrongs in the only manner possible: with money. Downwinders in 21 Nevada, Utah and Arizona counties began receiving compensation - $704 million to 14,000 cancer victims and their survivors."
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Fallout claims - Salt Lake Tribune - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 17 May 10 - Cached
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    "Orrin Hatch wants federal experts to take another look at the scientific information linking radioactive fallout from nuclear test explosions to illnesses suffered by downwinders. The goal is to establish whether additional Americans should be eligible for federal compensation. Sen. Hatch is right that additional study is warranted, especially now that some members of Congress from Western states are sponsoring legislation that would greatly expand eligibility under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. Sen. Hatch sponsored the original version of that law in 1990 and its expansion in 2000. He reacted with skepticism to the latest proposal to enlarge the geographical area in which Americans would be eligible, saying that it was not justified by the science and would be too expensive. He is correct that any expansion should be made in light of the latest scientific information."
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