Re: Nuke Workers Can Seek Compensation

[jack bell <bellstar@erols.com>]

Sandy Perle wrote:

> Thursday July 15 6:38 AM ET
>
> Nuke Workers Can Seek Compensation
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) - The administration is moving to let employees of
> private contractors seek federal compensation for diseases related to
> beryllium exposure while they worked at government nuclear weapons
> plans.
>
> Some of the people eligible to file claims work or worked at plants
> that date from the World War II effort to build a nuclear bomb, like
> Oak Ridge in Tennessee. Others worked or still work at the Nevada
> Test site, the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington State, Rocky
> Flats near Denver, the Idaho National Environmental Engineering
> Laboratory, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the
> Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
> **********************************************************

   Shouldn't Brush Corp. employees be included?

  Jack Bell, bellstar@erols.com

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