[CPEO-MEF] WORKERS, RADIATION: Nevada Test Site claims

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Test site workers win round for claims

By KEITH ROGERS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL (NV)
November 27, 2009

After nine years of denials and setbacks in a government program to 
compensate former Nevada Test Site employees for work-related illnesses, 
the retired nuclear weapons workers and survivors got some good news 
this week.

The agency charged with reconstructing their exposures to radioactive 
and toxic materials, which is key to proving or disproving their claims, 
has reversed its previous stance, saying instead the historic data 
needed for dose reconstructions are insufficient.
	
After a review of the tedious process, the National Institute of 
Occupational Safety and Health is recommending special status that will 
give more than 500 former Nevada Test Site workers the benefit of the doubt.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lvrj.com/news/test-site-workers-win-round-for-claims-75766887.html#

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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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