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Most adults fall into one of three categories, either they get their flu vaccine annually, or they never get one, or they do so sporadically. Medical experts agree, the 2020-2021…

What are you doing to keep busy now that summer is coming to an end, and the cooler temps of fall are upon us? Many of us are still staying…

Twenty years ago, on October 30, Congress made history by passing the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA).  This compassionate legislation reversed decades of injustice for workers employed…

How It All Began Do you know how the National Day of Remembrance began? In the late 1990s groups of sick workers would travel to Washington, D.C. to educate Congress…

DEEOIC Webinar Series

Site Exposure Matrices and Former Worker Program

August 26, 2020

2:00 – 3:30 p.m. (ET)

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Cold War Patriots welcomes you to share your Messages of Peace and your artwork with us! We encourage you to post photos of your messages and cranes on our Cold…

A claimant contacted me to ask that I write a blog about navigating the Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation’s (DEEOIC) Site Exposure Matrix (SEM).  He was trying to…

In 2010, I got a call from an upset claimant. Her Part B claim had been approved but her Part E claim had been denied because the site she worked…

When Nuclear Testing Was Whimsical In 1946 the United States began nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean with further tests being done in the US, mainly at the Nevada Test…

All in a Day’s Work - Department of Energy Facilities Were Responsible for More Than Nuclear Power, Medicine, and Weapons.   It is common knowledge that the Department of Energy…