Uranium compensation slow to come

JANUARY 29, 2001

Despite a federal law aimed at compensating victims of uranium and radition exposure, money and services have been slow to come.

Particularly affected are members of the Navajo Nation, who were downwind of nuclear tests during the 1905s and whose livestock and other property are heavily contaminated with radiation. Many also worked in uranium mines.

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