Sentences with phrase «uranium workers»

Amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to, among other things, include certain New Mexico counties in the areas exposed to fallout from nuclear weapons testing, expand the universe of compensable diseases for uranium workers, and extend eligibility for compensation to workers who worked after 1971.

The statement was provided in support of testimony presented to US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims Hearing on Uranium Workers Health Effects and Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments on June 25, 1998 in Washington DC.

Like many past uranium workers and residents in the American West, Hayes has fallen through the cracks of federal compensation programs designed to help those affected by uranium.

A bill introduced by Senator Tom Udall (D - N.M.) and Congressman Ben Ray Lujan (D - N.M.) would expand the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, making it easier for uranium workers and residents downwind from nuclear test sites to get federal cash and medical help.

A study conducted by the group found uranium - related health problems in 72 percent of more than 1,000 New Mexico uranium workers who had started working after the 1971 cutoff.

But like thousands of uranium workers who worked after 1971, she was not eligible for compensation because new safety regulations were put in place that year.

Many past uranium workers and residents in the western U.S. have fallen through the cracks of federal compensation programs designed to help those affected by uranium

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For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

But in 1999, when an accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokaimura killed two workers and contaminated the plant, AMOOTY was still considered too experimental to use.

The report also points out that RTZ's records on radiation doses show that before 1982 individual workers were exposed to more than the permissible doses in the final processing areas, where ore is roasted to recover uranium oxide.

Jasim Ahmed, head of the IAEA radiation safety section, says the mission will concentrate on three issues: workers» health, the monitoring of their exposure to radiation, and management of the mine's radioactive «tailings», a mixture of uranium ore and processing liquids.

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.

Seek legislation to impose a federal moratorium on new uranium development until environmental pollution from previous mining and milling is cleaned up, workers are appropriately compensated, and community health studies conducted.

Zafris revels in quirky characters and unfamiliar places - her earlier book, The Metal Shredders was about a bunch of scrap - metal workers in Ohio, while Lucky Strike revolves around a diverse group of uranium prospectors in the middle of the Utah desert.

She grew up in the Colorado Plateau area and her father (now dead, after a nine - year illness) was a mill worker at a uranium mine on the Navajo reservation, where Cummins lived and attended school for nine years.