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DEEOIC March Webinar to Focus on RECA

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation and the U.S. Department of Justice will hold a joint webinar on March 30, 2022 from 2:00 p.m.…

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Some Arizona downwinders remain uncompensated

KINGMAN – Standing on the front porch of their home south of Las Vegas, Jean Bishop’s family peered up as a mushroom cloud towered in the distance and dust choked…

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NIOSH explains dose reconstruction process

The Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation (DEEOIC) webinar for February 2022 featured Grady Calhoun, Director the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) Division of Compensation and…

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B & T Metals: The Company that Helped…

As the United States raced to build atomic bombs during World War II, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Manhattan Engineer District, commonly known as the Manhattan Project, had…

Op-ed: Give Nuclear Exposure Victims a Break

In the op-ed piece written by R. Hugh Stephens, a New York based advocate for nuclear weapons and uranium workers, Stephens recounts his experience working with former workers and expresses…

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Webinar: How NIOSH Reconstructs Doses

The Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation will host the February webinar on February 23, 2022 from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The topic will be on the…

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DEEOIC held the first webinar for 2022

The Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation (DEEOIC) held its first webinar for 2022 on January 26. The topic was the key duties of some of the leaders located…

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Reminder: COVID-19 can be claimed as a consequential…

Because of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, Cold War Patriots would like to remind our members that the Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation (DEEOIC) issued a Final Bulletin that provides guidance…

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NIOSH is Returning Cancer Claims to DOL –…

On May 1, 2021, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) identified a computer system security risk to their dose reconstruction program, and placed a pause on reconstructing…