Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: First Energy Davis Besse nuclear: cracks in the containment vessel to go with corrosion in the head [View all]PamW
(1,825 posts)Between 2000 and 2009, EEOICP has provided more than $5 billion in benefits to sick workers and their families.
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The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990 was principally for the "atomic veterans". Those are the members of the military that were in trenches at the Nevada Test Site when an atmospheric nuclear test was triggered, and then the servicemen got out of their trenches and marched toward "ground zero". It was an exercise to acqaint the soldiers to conditions on the nuclear battlefield.
The Energy Occupational Illness Compensation Program:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Employees_Occupational_Illness_Compensation_Program
The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICP) was passed in 2000 and is designed to compensate individuals who worked in nuclear weapons production and as a result of occupational exposures contracted certain illnesses.
These acts were compensation to people exposed to radiation by the Government because of the Government's nuclear weapons program. The connection to radiation exposure in commercial nuclear power is WHAT?
There were compensations to people because of the use of Agent Orange, a defoliant used in Vietnam. So because all these soldiers received compensation because they were sprayed with a defoliant; that must mean that being a landscaper is hazardous work. That's the conclusion one would draw if this faulty logic were carried to its conclusion.
PamW