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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…

We would like to extend our best wishes to Stuart L. Hinnefeld on his retirement from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division…

Part 3 of NCR's look at the toxic legacy of one Cold War-era nuclear weapons plant By: Claire Schaeffer-Duffy Editor’s note: As the government invests in the modernization of the U.S.…

Part 2 of NCR's look at the toxic legacy of one nuclear weapons plant By: Claire Schaeffer-Duffy Editor's note: As the government invests in the modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal,…

As US modernizes its nuclear weapons, NCR looks at the legacy of one Cold War-era plant By: Claire Schaeffer-Duffy Editor's note: As the government invests in the modernization of the U.S.…

By JoAnne Viviano  The Columbus Dispatch PIKETON — A researcher who served as chief scientist at a now-shuttered uranium-enrichment plant in this southern Ohio community said he wants transparency and truth…