Environmental Toxins

Feds pick up pace of Hanford payments

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 11th, 2004

The U.S. Department of Labor has picked up the pace of paying claims to Hanford workers who suffered cancer or a rare lung disease because of exposures at the nuclear site in Washington state.

In the past 2 months, the department has paid $1.7 million in compensation for medical costs for Hanford workers. That brings the total claims paid to workers or their survivors to more than $9 million, said Pete Turcic, director of the department's Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program.

More claims have been paid for workers harmed by exposure to radiation or beryllium, a metal used in the nuclear industry that can cause an incurable lung...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-05-11)

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