Sick Rocky Flats workers can't wait any longer for payments

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Rocky Mountain News
Published February 4, 2009 at 12:05 a.m.

When Mark Udall represented Colorado's 2nd Congressional District, one issue that never slipped far from the top of his agenda was ensuring some sort of justice for civilian employees who got sick after working at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant.

Udall was one of the architects of the legislation passed in 2000 setting up a compensation system for workers at Rocky Flats and other nuclear facilities who have contracted cancers linked to their work serving the country. And now that he's a U.S. senator, he has a larger platform and a louder megaphone to aid these civilian victims of the Cold War.

The help can't come soon enough.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/04/sick-rocky-flats-workers-cant-wait-any-longer/







Deadly Denial

But what you may not know is that today only one in four claimants has been compensated and millions more of your taxpayer dollars have been wasted creating hurdles instead of help.

For many of the nation's cold warriors, the government's game is deadly denial.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/special-reports/deadly-denial/