[ RadSafe ] More on Chernobyl

[jjcohen]

It seems to me that the DOE compensation program is a blatant  taxpayer
rip-off.
Just the cost for the elaborate burearocracy to administer the program is
enormous.
When you consider the likely dose levels ( below permissible limits) it is
highly
improbable that anyone will qualify for compensation, i.e."causation is more
likely than not"). Could there be any rational justification for the program
other than politics? What was wrong with the preexisting workmen's
compensation and other liability laws???

----- Original Message -----
From: Dukelow, James S Jr <jim.dukelow at pnl.gov>
To: John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>; <Cehn at aol.com>;
<radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:31 PM
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] More on Chernobyl


>
> 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
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