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Some sick workers from Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant
may receive compensation quickly, but most must wait
by Christine Hoekenga,
Nov 20, 2007
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The federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was
created to compensate uranium miners and mill workers sickened by
their jobs, but on the Navajo Reservation, Dr. Bruce Baird
Struminger says the program has proved flawed
by Laura Paskus,
Sep 24, 2006
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A controversial study says only a fraction of cancer cases
can be attributed to nuclear fallout in the U.S.
by Brett Wilkison,
Feb 20, 2006
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Former employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory are
seeking information about and compensation for serious health
problems caused by their work with radiation and other toxic
materials
by Laura Paskus,
Nov 24, 2003
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Beryllium contamination in a Las Vegas Energy Department
complex may have come from a 1965 nuclear reactor explosion, some
85 miles away
by Puanani Mench,
Oct 13, 2003
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In "Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader," editor John
Bradley pulls together the stories of downwinders, veterans and
other Americans who have paid the price of this country's invisible
nuclear history.
by Marilyn Abildskov,
Dec 03, 2001
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Protesters in Salt Lake City charge that the federal
government has yet to fully compensate people in Utah, Nevada and
Idaho whose health was harmed by the nuclear-bomb testing that
started 50 years ago.
by Tim Westby,
Mar 12, 2001
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The Montana Supreme Court says that the provision in the
state's constitution that guarantees residents "a clean and
healthful environment" protects the state's natural resources from
actual, proven damage and potential harm.
by Andrea Barnett,
Nov 08, 1999
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The National Cancer Institute has been sitting on a study
that says up to 72,000 people - many living far from nuclear bomb
test sites in Nevada - may have been exposed to dangerous amounts
of radiation in the 1950s.
by Karen Dorn Steele,
Aug 18, 1997
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Four workers at the Hanford, Wash., plutonium reclamation
facility say they are still suffering health problems after a May
14 accident at the facility.
by Emily Miller,
Jul 07, 1997
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