[CPEO-MEF] Canadian atomic veterans

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Veterans exposed to radiation scoff at proposed settlement

David Pugliese
CanWest News Service
November 2, 2007

OTTAWA - Veterans exposed to radiation during atomic weapons tests as 
well as at accidents at Ontario's Chalk River nuclear plant in the 1950s 
will be each offered up to $24,000 in compensation by the Conservative 
government.

But the former soldiers say that paltry amount comes no where close to 
making amends for the medical problems they have faced over the decades.

The veterans, some now dealing with cancer and other ailments, have been 
fighting for more than 20 years to get the government to acknowledge 
they were exposed to radiation during atomic blasts and at two major 
accidents at Chalk River, Ont.

Privately, defence officials say the $20,000 to $24,000 lump sum 
payments are in line with the compensation offered to veterans exposed 
to mustard gas and other chemicals during tests in the Second World War 
as well as those who were exposed to Agent Orange at military bases in 
Canada.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=f5717de2-6da5-44dd-b81c-78a3ee64c97f&k=91691

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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