$30 Million in Cash, Benefits Now Paid to former Huntington Uranium Workers, Survivors

Sunday, March 10, 2013 - 15:54Edited by Tony Rutherford from Multiple Reports

 

At least $30 million dollars in cash, compensation and health benefits have been paid to former workers and their survivors for occupation illness while working at the atomic weapons / uranium processing Huntington Pilot Plant.

 

The plant which was leased by INCO to the Department of Energy's predecessor operated from the early 1950s until it was placed on cold stand by in 1962. Cold Stand By, for other similar plants meant that the nation had adequate atomic weapons. HPP was not restarted. Instead, due to contamination, it was disassembled and the debris buried in a classified landfill at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Piketon, Ohio.
According to the most current (March 3, 2013) statistics from the Department of Labor, 769 individual workers are represented in the $30,719,671 payout. $4.25 million represent medical claims.

1,467 claims were filed; 794 were deemed "covered."
http://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/regs/compliance/statistics/WebPages%5CWES...

Although multiple processes occurred at the plant, those connected to weapons production of nickel carbonyl starting material barriers contained radioactive ingredients.

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