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Wow, 25,804 claims https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_Exposure_Compensation_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_Exposure_Compensatio...

• downandout 9y ago
  The number of claims was likely mitigated by the narrow eligibility crtieria. My father grew up in Ely, NV during this period. He wound up dying of kidney cancer, which first showed up when he was quite young (resulting in removal of a kidney) and then later returned to kill him. Kidney cancer (renal cell) was included in the fund, but only for people that worked as uranium miners. As a result, our family was denied compensation, even though his presence there was the likely cause of the cancer.