The Fallout
The Fallout
GOVERNMENT DENIAL & NEGLIGENCE
For years, the federal government attempted to minimize the extent, severity and effects of the contamination on the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), even as it conducted extensive efforts to decontaminate the air, soil and water supplies. This indicates the government knew many areas of the NTTR were still toxic and dangerous to the people who worked there.
A 1975 environmental assessment of TTR, published by the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), determined:
“There are three areas of the Range (the Roller Coaster sites) that are contaminated with plutonium from tests carried on in 1963. These areas are well fenced and there is no indication of migration of this surface contamination outside the fence, let alone outside the Range; nor is there any indication that this plutonium has entered significantly into the local biological systems or food chains.”
The assessment also determined:
“A current set of tests of explosions in shipping containers have scattered and may yet scatter some beryllium and depleted uranium. Solid wastes are disposed of in landfills. Explosive wastes are burned in the open.”
Between 1951 and 1992, the DOE and Department of Defense (DoD) continuously deployed military and civilian personnel on the NTS despite the known presence of extreme levels of highly toxic radioactive and chemical materials, as well as their clear and present danger to humans and the environment.
Thousands of people who worked on the NTS were exposed to the invisible enemy. Winds migrated and deposited dangerous radioactive fallout over the TTR and Groom Lake. One powerful detonation that created the Sedan Crater exposed an estimated 13 million military personnel and civilians outside the vast Nevada Test and Training Range to toxic nuclear contamination.
The Government Takes Responsibility
On October 30, 2000, President Bill Clinton signed the Energy Employee Occupational Illness Compensation Act (EEOICPA) into law. This program provides fair and timely compensation for nuclear weapons workers and others who were exposed to hazardous substances as a result of weapons testing or uranium production, and subsequently contracted certain illnesses.
EEOICPA COMPENSATION TO DATE
Qualified DOE employees and other civilians who worked on the NTTR have received billions in compensation.
- An average of $400,000 per individual, in some cases more Lifetime medical coverage
- Many qualified for compensation after serving only 250 days on the NTTR
EEOICPA: A GLARING OMISSION
However, the EEOICPA applies only to employees of the DOE and its civilian contractors, as well as the survivors of workers who died from their illnesses.
DoD personnel and their families were specifically excluded from the EEOICPA except for those who witnessed DOE above-ground bomb detonations.
To this day, DoD personnel not involved in DOE tests have been denied EEOICPA benefits, including free healthcare and fair compensation. These include personnel stationed at the TTR, the NTS and Groom Lake involved in:
- Conducting classified scientific research
- Developing, testing and securing classified aircraft and other technologies
- Providing operational support
Most of these personnel have been excluded for national security reasons.
- The DoD will not release the names of any personnel stationed on the TTR, the NTS or at Groom Lake.
- Their service records are classified and unavailable to the public or other government agencies, including the Veterans Administration.
- There is no way to prove they served on the TTR, the NTS or at Groom Lake.
- There is no way to prove they were exposed to toxic radiation and materials on these sites.
- They and their families have no way to file an EEOICPA claim and receive the free medical treatment and just compensation they deserve.
Even though they suffer from or died from a recognized illness caused by their exposure.
The DoD refuses to acknowledge their presence at these sites let alone their involvement in the top-secret research and Black Operations conducted there.
In other words, according to the DoD, these personal did not and do not exist.
GOVERNMENT DENIAL
& NEGLIGENCE
For years, the federal government attempted to minimize the extent, severity and effects of the contamination on the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), even as it conducted extensive efforts to decontaminate the air, soil and water supplies. This indicates the government knew many areas of the NTTR were still toxic and dangerous to the people who worked there.
A 1975 environmental assessment of TTR, published by the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), determined:
“There are three areas of the Range (the Roller Coaster sites) that are contaminated with plutonium from tests carried on in 1963. These areas are well fenced and there is no indication of migration of this surface contamination outside the fence, let alone outside the Range; nor is there any indication that this plutonium has entered significantly into the local biological systems or food chains.”
The assessment also determined:
“A current set of tests of explosions in shipping containers have scattered and may yet scatter some beryllium and depleted uranium. Solid wastes are disposed of in landfills. Explosive wastes are burned in the open.”
Between 1951 and 1992, the DOE and Department of Defense (DoD) continuously deployed military and civilian personnel on the NTS despite the known presence of extreme levels of highly toxic radioactive and chemical materials, as well as their clear and present danger to humans and the environment.
Thousands of people who worked on the NTS were exposed to the invisible enemy. Winds migrated and deposited dangerous radioactive fallout over the TTR and Groom Lake. One powerful detonation that created the Sedan Crater exposed an estimated 13 million military personnel and civilians outside the vast Nevada Test and Training Range to toxic nuclear contamination.
The Government Takes Responsibility
On October 30, 2000, President Bill Clinton signed the Energy Employee Occupational Illness Compensation Act (EEOICPA) into law. This program provides fair and timely compensation for nuclear weapons workers and others who were exposed to hazardous substances as a result of weapons testing or uranium production, and subsequently contracted certain illnesses.
EEOICPA COMPENSATION TO DATE
Qualified DOE employees and other civilians who worked on the NTTR have received billions in compensation.
- An average of $400,000 per individual, in some cases more Lifetime medical coverage
- Many qualified for compensation after serving only 250 days on the NTTR
EEOICPA: A GLARING OMISSION
However, the EEOICPA applies only to employees of the DOE and its civilian contractors, as well as the survivors of workers who died from their illnesses.
DoD personnel and their families were specifically excluded from the EEOICPA except for those who witnessed DOE above-ground bomb detonations.
To this day, DoD personnel not involved in DOE tests have been denied EEOICPA benefits, including free healthcare and fair compensation. These include personnel stationed at the TTR, the NTS and Groom Lake involved in:
- Conducting classified scientific research
- Developing, testing and securing classified aircraft and other technologies
- Providing operational support
Most of these personnel have been excluded for national security reasons.
- The DoD will not release the names of any personnel stationed on the TTR, the NTS or at Groom Lake.
- Their service records are classified and unavailable to the public or other government agencies, including the Veterans Administration.
- There is no way to prove they served on the TTR, the NTS or at Groom Lake.
- There is no way to prove they were exposed to toxic radiation and materials on these sites.
- They and their families have no way to file an EEOICPA claim and receive the free medical treatment and just compensation they deserve.
Even though they suffer from or died from a recognized illness caused by their exposure.
The DoD refuses to acknowledge their presence at these sites let alone their involvement in the top-secret research and Black Operations conducted there.
In other words, according to the DoD, these personal did not and do not exist.
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