HANFORD SETS UP SCREENING FOR BERYLLIUM WORKERS COULD GET COMPENSATION.(News) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: July 16, 1999| Author: Smith, Carol | COPYRIGHT 1999 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Thousands of Hanford workers who may have been exposed to beryllium, an element used in nuclear weapons production, could be compensated by the U.S. government for illness related to their exposure under legislation proposed yesterday by the Clinton administration.

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation has already set up a beryllium screening program for current and former workers, said Mike Talbot, Hanford spokesman. So far, 196 former workers have volunteered for the screeni...

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