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Nuclear factory workers to be compensated for their cancers

it is reasonable to conclude workers at Blockson Chemical Co. were exposed to radiation in large enough doses from 1951 to 1960 to cause illness, even if it is impossible to determine the precise amount of radiation exposure.

Joliet workers’ path to radiation compensation eased – Chicago Tribune, September 11, 2010|By Ted Gregory, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Friday ended a decade-long wait and eased compensation claims for Joliet factory workers who contracted cancer while helping build and test nuclear weapons in the 1950s.

In a letter to Congress, Sebelius said it is reasonable to conclude workers at Blockson Chemical Co. were exposed to radiation in large enough doses from 1951 to 1960 to cause illness, even if it is impossible to determine the precise amount of radiation exposure.

Sebelius’ decision came about six weeks after a Chicago Tribune article highlighted delays in compensating Blockson workers and their survivors from a fund created in 2000 for that purpose. The federal government established the fund after determining that workers in plants across the U.S. were exposed to high levels of radiation without being told or given adequate protection…..

Joliet workers’ path to radiation compensation eased – Chicago Tribune

September 13, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive