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Friday, August 22, 2025

Steve Hicks worked for 34 years at the Y-12 National Security Complex - which enriched the uranium for the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and to this day remains a key site in the United States nuclear weapons complex. He is spending his retirement managing the 30 daily medications he takes to treat the effects of two cancers and nerve damage linked to radiation exposure ...

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... "I made a good living there but I am not happy that I am this sick. And there are people who worked there that are sicker than me," Hicks, 70, said in an interview with Reuters.

Assembling the petitions is a complicated process. It can take years to gather the thousands of pages of evidence required to document the causes of 22 types of cancer the U.S. government recognizes as associated with radiation exposure at its nuclear workplaces.

Now Hicks' effort to win benefits and compensation for him and thousands of nuclear workers is in limbo after the HHS suspended indefinitely the expert medical bodies charged with reviewing those claims, according to interviews with 18 former workers, board members and administration officials.

And some of Hicks' petitioners do not have time to wait. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 06:20 PM | Reply

@#1 ... Now Hicks' effort to win benefits and compensation for him and thousands of nuclear workers is in limbo after the HHS suspended indefinitely the expert medical bodies charged with reviewing those claims, according to interviews with 18 former workers, board members and administration officials. ...

So Pres Trump's DOGE strikes yet another success for the workers of America?

/s


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 06:21 PM | Reply

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