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Gov. Compensation Programs

There were over 600,000 workers involved in the production of nuclear weapons.

My father was one of the workers. My father worked at the Hanford project in Reactor Operations. My Father worked thirty years for the Department of Energy. My Father was the supervisor of the 100 area nine Reactors at the Hanford Project. The reactors produced Plutonium for nuclear weapons. My Father was an expert in Radiation Monitoring and also an expert in Reactor Operations. My Father authored many system control Operations and procedures for the start up of the Reactors.
My Father died of Whole Body Dose cumulative radiation exsposure.

Also my Mother and my Brother died from Radiation exposure.

The Government has done an excellent job of covering up the truth of Radiation Health Effects for many years.

Within the last few years The Department of Energy (DOE) has been sued so many times from past employees,and paid out millions in lost law suites. They have had to admit that they have made thousands of workers sick and or dead. They have implemented compensation programs to try and cut off the law suites.

The first program was called the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. Administered by the Department of Justice Department.(RECA).www.usdoj.gov/civil/torts/const/reca/
Radiation Exposure Compensation Program

The other program is called the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. (EEOICPA) Part D is run by the Department of Labor(DOL). www.dol.gov/esa/regs/com.....eeoicp/main.htm
Energy Employees Compensation Program Home Page.

Part B is run by the Department of Energy(DOE). .tis.eh.doe.gov/advocacy/f...st/findfacility.cfm
DOE Office of Worker Advocacy - Find Facilities.

VA Programs for Veterans Exposed to Radiation

Some 195,000 servicemembers have been identified as participants in the post-World War II occupation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. In addition, approximately 210,000 mostly military members are confirmed as participants in U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962 in the United States and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans prior to the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Nuclear Test Personnel Review program since 1978 has maintained a database of participants in atmospheric nuclear test activities. About one-fourth of the participants received no measurable dose of ionizing radiation, with fewer than one per cent of the nuclear test participants identified as having a dose of 5 rem or higher. (The current federal guideline for U.S. workplace exposure is 5 rem per year.)

www.va.gov/pressrel/99radpgm.htm
VA Fact Sheet: 1999 VA Programs for Veterans Exposed to Radiation

With a little research on these web sites you should be able to come to the conclusion on how large of a health issue this is.I can also supply you with plenty of studies from some of the best Health Physicist in the world.

There are several several excellent books on the subject one of which is called Killing Our Own, The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation, by Harvey Wasserman and Normon Solomon, with Robert Alvarez and Eleanore Walters, 1982: You can read the full book at this web site and also find information to fill in any gaps that you might have questions about.The Health Costs of Nuclear Technology. www.ratical.org/radiation/inetSeries/

Here is a link to one of my many web sites called The Hanford Downwinders Information Site.www.geocities.com/irradiate...ems/index.html
HANFORD DOWNWINDERS INFORMATION SITE