Deal Secures Aid for Weapon Workers
From Times Wire Reports
Thousands of ailing uranium miners would be eligible for extra benefits, while sick weapon plant workers would get compensation for the first time under a deal reached by House and Senate negotiators. The cost was estimated at almost $1 billion over the first five years, congressional aides said. Until last year, the government had always denied a direct link between work exposure in a nuclear weapon complex and later illnesses.
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