[CPEO-MEF] Nuke worker compensation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rocky: U.S. nuke work afflicted 36,500 Americans

Radiation sickened 36,500 and killed at least 4,000 of those who built 
bombs, mined uranium, breathed test fallout

By Ann Imse
Rocky Mountain News (CO)
August 31, 2007

The U.S. nuclear weapons program has sickened 36,500 Americans and 
killed more than 4,000, the Rocky Mountain News has determined from 
government figures.

Those numbers reflect only people who have been approved for government 
compensation. They include people who mined uranium, built bombs and 
breathed dust from bomb tests.

Many of the bomb-builders, such as those at the Rocky Flats plant near 
Denver, have never applied for compensation or were rejected because 
they could not prove their work caused their illnesses. Congressional 
hearings are in the works to review allegations of unfairness and delays 
in the program for weapons workers.

The Rocky calculation appears to be the first to compile the 
government's records on the human cost of manufacturing 70,000 atomic 
bombs since 1945. It is based on compensation figures from four federal 
programs run by the Departments of Labor, Justice and Veterans Affairs. 
Many people have been paid only recently.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5686694,00.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>
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