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Congress considers expanding compensation for uranium’s cold warriors of World War II

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There’s a new effort to get compensation for Americans exposed to uranium in mining and weapons testing. The industry was concentrated around the Colorado Plateau. Doctor Jon Samet has studied the health effects in uranium workers for decades. He’s a pulmonologist and epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health, and past dean of the school.