[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, WORKERS: Rocketdyne's "Atomic Avenger"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Atomic Avenger

Former Rocketdyne employee and cancer survivor battles for radiation 
worker compensation

By Michael Collins
Ventura County Reporter (CA)
July 8, 2010

The eyes of Bonnie Klea are extraordinarily bright and unblinking. There 
is no trace of self-pity for her courageous fight against bladder 
cancer, now in remission, or her years-long battle with Boeing, 
Rocketdyne and various federal agencies over the rights of other sick 
radiation workers.

Instead, there is the steady look of someone who has said, "Enough is 
enough - let me handle this," and who went and did just that. Hundreds 
of Ventura County residents and their families will soon know the bounty 
that Bonnie Klea has secured for them.

...

Those assets now count in the tens of millions because of new laws that 
are kicking in over the next few months to compensate ill Cold War Era 
radiation workers, thanks to Klea. Hundreds of nuke workers are now 
eligible for the costs of any one or more of 22 ailments associated with 
radiation exposure, lost wages and a $150,000 lump sum payment, tax 
free, for the cancer they've endured.

...


For the entire article, see
http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/atomic_avenger/8055/#

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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