Thousands of former Department of Energy and Atomic workers living in Ohio suffer from illnesses due to their workplace exposure to radioactive and toxic substances.
Nuclear Care Partners delivers customized, no-cost, in-home health care to former Department of Energy and Atomic Workers impacted by workplace exposure, so they can live healthier, more independent lives at home. We integrate expert clinical care, innovative health programs, and relentless benefits advocacy all under one roof, empowering atomic heroes to access and maximize their care and compensation benefits under the EEOICPA program.
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We can help you determine your EEOICPA benefits eligibility and connect you with resources to help you access and maximize your compensation and medical benefits.
For over a decade, we’ve helped former atomic workers, including former Fernald Site, Mound Site, and Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (A-Plant) workers, get connected with and maximize their EEOICPA benefits and receive the quality care services they deserve. We know the EEOICPA inside and out and can help you wherever you’re at in your journey with your benefits!
More than 600,000 former atomic workers across the United States may qualify for up to $400,000 in financial compensation, plus no cost medical benefits for life through the Department of Labor’s EEOICPA.
The Fernald Preserve, formerly known as the Feed Materials Production Center, Fernald Environmental Management Project, and Fernald Closure Project, spent nearly 40 years processing uranium ore to support our nation’s nuclear weapons complex.
Uranium ore was transported to the site and processed in foundries to produce high-purity uranium metal. The purified uranium or “feed materials” was then used as targets inserted into nuclear reactors that produced plutonium for weapon construction. The uranium fuel cores were the “feed” for the Atomic Energy Commission’s plutonium production reactors in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, and at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
Unfortunately, during the facility’s operation, processing activities led to the contamination of the soil, surface water, and groundwater. To protect human health, the environment, and the land’s future use, the Fernald Site was cleaned to standards approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ohio EPA. This cleanup was successful and completed in 2006.
The site has come full circle, now serving as a nature preserve. The land’s natural features have been restored using native plants and grasses, and the ecological restoration has made it home to a diversity of wildlife.
Located just southwest of Dayton in Miamisburg, Ohio, the Mound Site operated as part of the Atomic Energy Commission, and later the Department of Energy, in support of the Ohio Manhattan Project. The Mound supported the research, development, and production of a variety of missions including the support of the United States’ weapons, energy, and space programs. The brilliant minds of the many dedicated scientists, technicians, and workers who spent years working at Mound Laboratory and the Mound site have left a lasting legacy. The innovative minds of all former Mound workers truly changed the world through the leading-edge development, manufacturing, and evaluation of explosive components for the nation’s nuclear defense.
Located in Pike County, Ohio, the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, or A-Plant, played a central role in building and maintaining the nation’s nuclear weapons complex. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission began construction of the A-Plant to provide enriched uranium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program and to provide fuel for the growing nuclear power industry. It later transitioned to provide enriched uranium for commercial nuclear reactors. As one of three large gaseous diffusion plants in the nation, the A-Plant enriched uranium from 1954 until 2001 through a process called gaseous diffusion.
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