[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, RADIATION: Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (NY) workers

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Government allows more cancer claims from LOOW

By Aaron Besecker
BUFFALO NEWS (NY)
November 9, 2009


The federal government is making it easier for individuals who got 
cancer after working at a Niagara County nuclear site to receive 
compensation because of a lack of available data about exposure at the 
facility.

Workers at the former Lake Ontario Ordnance Works, or their survivors, 
can make a claim for compensation if they had one of 22 types of cancer, 
under a recent decision by the National Institute for Occupational 
Safety and Health.

The move, which applies to individuals who worked there from 1944 
through 1953, waives an aspect of the case review by the agency, called 
"dose reconstruction," because of a lack of adequate data available 
about how much radiation workers may have been exposed to, agency 
spokeswoman Shannon Bradford said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/niagaracounty/story/855080.html?imw=Y

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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