Meetings With Nuclear Workers' Group Latest Attempt to Help Hanford Employees

A group of former nuclear and uranium workers held meetings this week geared at helping Hanford Nuclear Reservation workers who have been denied workers' compensation benefits, the Tri-City Herald newspaper of Kennewick, Washington, reported. The meetings took place Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in cities within an hour's drive of the nearly 600-square-mile nuclear waste site, which produced much of the plutonium for the nation's nuclear arsenal from 1943-1987. Members of the nuclear workers' group, called the Cold War Patriots, talked to Hanford workers about two federal c...