U.S. Senator Ken Salazar

Member: Agriculture, Energy, Veterans' Affairs, Ethics and Aging Committees

 

2300 15th Street, Suite 450 Denver, CO 80202 | 702 Hart Senate Building, Washington, D.C. 20510

 

 

For Immediate Release

April 20, 2006

CONTACT:    Cody Wertz – Comm. Director

                        303-455-7600

Andrew Nannis  – Press Secretary

                        202-224-5852


 Sen. Salazar Pledges to Continue Fight for Rocky Flats Workers’ Benefits and Comments on NIOSH’s Assertion it has Enough Information to Calculate Workers’ Radiation Doses

Denver, CO – “Rocky Flats workers contributed greatly to our victory in the Cold War. Many have suffered from cancer and other illnesses as a result of their exposure to radiation and other substances in the course of their dedicated service. I will continue to fight for the payment of medical care and survivors’ benefits for these American heroes and their families. NIOSH’s assertion that it has the necessary information to calculate the radiation doses received by Rocky Flats workers is premature. There is an on-going review process which has raised very specific and far-reaching questions about the completeness, quality and integrity of the data being used by NIOSH to calculate these radiation exposures. Those questions need to be answered properly and as quickly as possible.”

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