Sentences with phrase «for uranium miners»
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Prices for the metal have been depressed in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, but the situation got so bad this year that Cameco, the world's largest publicly traded uranium miner, had to suspend production at multiple mines.
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Excerpts from: Invisible Violence, Re: Uranium Miners, Proceedings of the National Citizens» Hearings for Radiation Victims, April 10 - 14, 1980.
The «new RECA» expands the universe of workers eligible for federal compensation to include open - pit uranium miners, uranium millworkers and ore - hauling truck drivers; expands the list of compensatory illnesses and causes of death to include several cancers in addition to lung cancer, certain nonmalignant respiratory diseases, and diseases of the kidney.
In the late 1970s, Navajo uranium miners and their families asked for help to show that their lung diseases had been caused by their work in underground uranium mines in the 1940s - 1960s.
«As we enter the second decade of the 21st century experiencing a horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a devastating natural gas explosion in California, death of 25 West Virginia coal miners, kidnapped uranium miners in Niger — it's about time for the United States to reposition itself as a global leader in solar and the entire portfolio renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies critical to our economic and national security,» said Scott Sklar, president of the Stella Group, which promotes renewable power generation.