Workers fight for compensation.
13th Nov 2006, 15:28 GMT
Since 2001, the federal government has handed out about $2.2 billion to atomic workers. But the program has been been marked by bureaucratic delays, conflicts of interest, allegations of shaky science and what some say is an anti-worker bias.
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