People Harmed By Radiation Exposure Can Forget About Any Federal Compensation

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People Harmed By Radiation Exposure Can Forget About Any Federal Compensation

This story is a partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative reporting news organization. It wasn’t a difficult choice for Linda Evers, after graduating high school in 1976, to take a job crushing dirt for the Kerr McGee uranium mill, just north of her hometown Grants, New Mexico. Most gigs in town paid $1.75 an hour. This one offered $9 an hour. She spent seven years working in New Mexico’s uranium mines and mills…