[ RadSafe ] More on Chernobyl

[Dukelow, James S Jr]

John,

You overstate the compensation programs.  Although Congress stampeded
over the DOE Worker Compensation cliff several years ago, not much has
been paid and it never applied to just "anyone" who worked at DOE (or
its contractors).  There has been no Hanford downwinder compensation
program although many lawsuits have been bumping around in the court
system for 10-15 years now.  Trials for the first **six** plaintiffs
just got underway.

Best regards.

Jim Dukelow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA
jim.dukelow at pnl.gov

These comments are mine and have not been reviewed and/or approved by my
management or by the U.S. Department of Energy.

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of John Jacobus
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 9:51 AM
To: Cehn at aol.com; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] More on Chernobyl


We also have compensation programs in this country for
anyone who worked at DOE, was in the military and
exposed to nuclear tests, and to those who lived
downwind of Hanford.  The difference is that we can
pay for our compensation programs.  

Maybe we should give everyone in Belarus and the
Ukraine who wants it a $30,000 cash settlement.

--- Cehn at aol.com wrote:
> I visited the Cherobyl area 7 years after the
> accident and was amazed at
> what low-level radiation exposure can be responsible
> for.  Every illness  was 
> somehow blamed on the accident.  Come to find out,
> the government was  paying 
> reparations to anyone harmed by it.  Quite an
> incentive to draw  victims.  I saw 
> a 5-year old in a hospital with leukemia; caused by 
> Chernobyl of course.  I 
> inquired how was he exposed to radiation from  the
> plant, when he wasn't born 
> until 2 years after the accident and 50 miles  away?
> Never got an answer.  
> 
> Joel I. Cehn,  CHP
> 
> 
> 
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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