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By Susan Adkisson  The Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (ORINS) Cancer Research Hospital’s was a 30-bed hospital and was completed in 1950, The first patients accepted by the division were…

Did you ever wonder why some facilities are covered by the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA) and some are not?  Who decides which facilities can be covered? …

Recently, the Department of Labor (DOL) released the Ombudsman for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICP) 2016 report to Congress, https://bit.ly/2zm0DLZ.  The law requires the Ombudsman to…

One of the hardest parts of working on an EEOICPA claim is finding the evidence to prove a worker worked at a DOE facility, the locations/processes they worked in, and…

This October 30 is the tenth anniversary of the National Day of Remembrance.  This day honors the men and women who worked at the nuclear weapons complex from the Manhattan…

Marie Curie has always been one of my heroes. In an age when women were not educated or working professionally she was both. The Curies, along with Henri Becquerel, won…

The law establishing EEOICPA provides that workers may file claims in one or more of three different categories: Department of Energy (DOE) facility Atomic Weapons Employee (AWE) facility Beryllium Vendor…

Photo is a satellite image of Area 51, Southern Nevada, a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, collected on February 26, 2013. (DigitalGlobe/DigitalGlobe/Getty Images) To briefly recap Part 1…

Photo is a satellite image of Area 51, Southern Nevada, a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, collected on February 26, 2013. (DigitalGlobe/DigitalGlobe/Getty Images) When I first decided to…

One of the most unusual Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) facilities that I have run across is Ohio’s Scioto Laboratory, which was set up as a backup facility for Mound Laboratory.…