Uranium Mine and Mill Workers - Current Issues

(last updated May 17, 2014)

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• Radiation Exposure for Uranium Industry Workers
• Uranium Miner Health Risk Calculator
• Uranium Radiation Individual Dose Calculator
• Radon Individual Dose Calculator
• Uranium Mining and Indigenous People
• Uranium Mine and Mill Residents - Current Issues
• Nuclear Fuel Plant Workers - Current Issues
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• May 17, 2014: Former Urgeiriça uranium miners again asking for compensation (Portugal)

• Apr. 9, 2014: Workers' excessive radiation doses at Rožná underground uranium mine increasing even further (Czech Republic)

• Sep. 21, 2013: Tailings backfill significantly increases radon emanation into mine atmosphere of Jaduguda uranium mine (India)

• April 9, 2013: Workers receive excessive radiation dose at Rožná underground uranium mine (Czech Republic)

• July 19, 2012: Study analyzes excessive radon concentrations in Chinese uranium mines, discusses reduction measures

• Areva condemned for lung cancer death of former employee at Akouta uranium mine in Niger

• 3,700 Wismut miners contracted lung cancer after Wismut stopped operations (Germany)

• Annual dose estimates for Rožná underground uranium miners still based on communist era-style method (Czech Republic)

• Ranger mine workers not covered by Australia's Radiation Dose Register

• Study finds increased mortality among Grants underground uranium miners, but not among uranium mill workers (New Mexico)

• Federal Social Court awards former Wismut uranium miners compensation for larynx cancer (Germany)

• Former uranium mill workers file complaint for compensation of health damages (Spain)

• Portuguese uranium mine workers call for cleanup of old uranium mine sites, after observation of excess cancer deaths among former mine and mill workers

• Ex-Cañon City mill worker receives cancer compensation (Colorado)

• Compensation case of former Rössing uranium miners (Namibia)

• 10,000 miners exposed to excess radiation doses (South Africa).

• Impacts of Uranium Mining at Port Radium, NWT, Canada

• Compensation of Navajo Uranium Miners

• Impacts of Wismut's uranium mining for Uranium Miners (Germany)

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