[CPEO-MEF] Energy Department workers

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Energy Department To Allow Contractors To Police Their Own Workplace 
Safety Conditions

Jordan Barab
Confined Space
May 29, 2006

Employees of the Department of Energy and the 100,000 workers employed 
by DOE contractors who maintain the nuclear arsenal, dismantle surplus 
weapons, dispose of excess radioactive materials, clean up old 
facilities and conduct energy research are not covered by OSHA. This 
lack of independent oversight has had predictable results over the past 
fifty years.

Thousand of "nuclear veterans" received deadly radiation and toxic 
chemical exposures building this nation's cold war nuclear arsenal, and 
others were subject of human radiation experiments. Despite the research 
and warnings of unions, such as the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers, 
that their members were becoming sick and dying, the hazards of these 
facilities and the effects on their employees were ignored for decades. 
In 2000, after DOE admitted the harm caused to thousands of cold war 
veterans, Congress finally passed the Energy Employees Occupational 
Illness Compensation Act (EEOICPA) which established a compensation 
program for former nuclear workers.

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For the entire article, see
http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2006/05/energy-department-to-allow-contractors.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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