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WMNF 88.5 FM: Nuclear workers still looking for compensation
Beginning in 1957, Pinellas County was home to a plant that built triggers for nuclear weapons. Some of that Largo plant’s former workers claim that they were exposed to toxic substances and are fighting for compensation. Dave Bossard worked at the General Electric Neutron Devices plant for 34 years and eventually became a supervisor. His duties included supervising the area that contained the chemical storage building. He said the workers were exposed to 473 “deadly toxins … chemicals and radiation” that are still causing diseases in former workers.
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Ex-Nuclear Plant Workers Want Government Compensation
TAMPA - John Pool wants to know why the U.S. Department of Labor is saying no. Pool, 79, worked at the former General Electric Plant in Largo from 1970-73. The facility produced triggers for nuclear bombs, and former employees say they may have been exposed to radiation and carcinogenic chemicals.
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Armstrong gets nuke settlement money, but little solace - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Eliza Johnson knows that all the money in the world can't raise her husband and daughter from their graves. If it could, she'd find a way to earn, beg, borrow or steal enough to see Fruitie Johnson and Deborah Lawhorn again. She'd love to know how good it would feel to talk to them once more, to laugh, to have a reason to cook a big meal and lay it out on the empty table in her wood-paneled dining room. To Johnson, that would be a victory, not a check from the companies she holds responsible for the cancers that killed them and others in Apollo, Leechburg, Vandergrift and Parks Township.
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RIA Novosti - Russia - Strasbourg court rules against Russia in Siberian radiation case
TOMSK, April 30 (RIA Novosti) -- The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to pay around $95,000 in compensation to residents of a Siberian town over the length of time taken to consider claims connected to a 1990s radiation leak, a local NGO official said on Wednesday. The applicants had earlier sued the Siberian Chemical Combine over a radioactive leak in April 1993 that affected two towns, Georgiyevka and Naumovka.
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Metal Trades Dept. Calls for Oversight Hearings Into Operations of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICP)
WASHINGTON, April 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The AFL-CIO Metal Trades Department (MTD) is calling for congressional oversight hearings to investigate the failure of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICP) to provide adequate benefits to nuclear weapons workers and survivors victimized by radiation or exposure to toxic agents in their work environment.
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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Tayside and Central | Nuclear test veteran to sue MoD
A Royal Navy veteran from Dundee is suing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) over the radiation he was exposed to during atomic bomb testing. John Gilchrist, 72, was involved in two tests at the Montebello Islands off north western Australia in 1956.
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Still no compensation for former Joliet plant workers :: The SouthtownStar :: News
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Former western Pa. nuclear workers could get compensation earlier - The York Daily Record
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Ill ex-nuke workers to get money, benefits - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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More time needed on Flats aid cases, advisory panel says : Local News : The Rocky Mountain News
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Board recommends easing requirements for compensating ill Hanford workers | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news
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Labor Department to hold Livermore meetings for atomic weapons workers - East Bay Business Times:
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Group hopes to ease claims process for nuclear workers : Rocky Flats Nuclear Workers : The Rocky Mountain News
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Local News | "Downwinders" can sue over Hanford issues | Seattle Times Newspaper
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Flats compensation case stirs lawmakers : Rocky Flats Nuclear Workers : The Rocky Mountain News
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