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The Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health held their 130th meeting in Oak Ridge, TN on August 21, 2019.  The Board advised the National Institute for Occupational Safety and…

The Advisory Board will hold a meeting via teleconference on Wednesday, September 4, 2019, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time.  The meeting is open to the public but…

The Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health will have an in-person meeting in Oak Ridge on August 21, 2019.  The meeting begins at 9 am and will end at…

People who worked at a uranium ore-buying station in the 1950s in Edgemont may have been exposed to materials that made them sick, and the government wants them and…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A compensation program for those exposed to radiation from years of nuclear weapons testing and uranium mining would be expanded under legislation that seeks to address fallout across…

From DOL’s website, “The Site Exposure Matrices (SEM) website has been updated! This update makes the website current through May 10, 2019. New information is now available for 21…

Y-12 had a role in man’s first landing on the moon. They fabricated the “moon boxes” — lunar sample return containers — for the Apollo Program. Fifty years ago, the…

The DOL Office of the Ombudsman for EEOICPA held Town Hall meetings in Ohio on June 19th and 20th.  Kim Holt provided useful information to attendees on the claims process. …

The Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health held a teleconference on June 25, 2019 in preparation for the in-person meeting in Oak Ridge, TN.  The date of the meeting…

Workers Exposed to Radiation During Arms Race Seek Cancer Care, Compensation Doug Provaw, a 94-year-old who lives in Ames, Iowa, remembers receiving a chemistry set in the mail when he…