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February 13, 2017
OLYMPIA (AP) — Washington state lawmakers are considering a measure to help former nuclear site workers with certain illnesses receive the needed care and compensation.
KING-TV reports that the bill introduced by Richland Republican Rep. Larry Haler would grant a presumption of occupational illness for certain conditions in people who worked at Hanford, where the federal government produced plutonium for nuclear weapons 45 years. Production stopped in 1989.
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