Early Cancer Screenings Resume For A-plant Workers
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The ceremony will take place beginning at 11 a.m. in the parking lot of the United Steel Workers Union Hall, 228 Wakefield Mound Road.
A number of people will offer brief comments at 11 a.m. and the ribbon-cutting will take place at 11:30.
Nuclear weapons workers will demonstrate how the low-dose CT scanner is used in performing the tests.
Two former gaseous diffusion plant workers — Edna Brackey and George Mustard — will be among those people on the speaker's stand. Both of them are lung cancer survivors, according to union officials.
Others expected to speak include:
• Regina Cano, director of the Office for Former Workers Programs for the DOE.
• Bobby Graff, president of USW Local 1-689.
• Nan Cahall, office of U.S. Sen. George Voinovich.
• David Hodapp, office of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown.
• Steve Caraway, office of U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt.
• Steven Markowitz, MD, World Health Protection Program project director and an occupational medicine physical at Queens College in New York.
The World Health Protection Program is a collaboration between the USW and Queens College of the City University of New York.
The DOE is funding the project.
The DOE, union officials said, has recognized that workers in DOE facilities were exposed to lung carcinogens such as radiation, asbestos, beryllium and other materials.
In 2000, Congress approved a compensation program for workers at nuclear weapons facilities who were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation and toxic substances.
The early lung cancer detection project is a part of a medical screening and education program for DOE workers under the World Health Protection Program.
It's carried out independently of DOE and is intended to provide medical information about occupational diseases to workers and their physicians.
G. SAM PIATT can be reached at 740) 353-3101, ext. 236.
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