Thousands of former atomic and uranium workers living in New Mexico 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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For over a decade, we’ve helped former atomic workers, including former Los Alamos National Laboratory and Grants Uranium 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.
In 1943, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was established as site Y of the Manhattan Project. At its peak two years later in 1945, more than 5,000 scientists, engineers, technicians, metallurgists, and their families lived on the site. Under the leadership of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the lab successfully weaponized the atom just 27 months after its establishment. On July 16, 1945, the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated at the Trinity Site in Alamogordo, New Mexico—about 200 miles south of Los Alamos.
Today, LANL has a heightened focus on worker safety and security awareness while maintaining its rich variety of research programs in national security, nuclear nonproliferation and border security, energy and infrastructure security, and countermeasures to nuclear and biological terrorist threats. The lab continues to boast over 75 years of scientific innovation.
Read more about Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 2020 Atomic Health News Fall Edition.
From the 1950s through the late 1990s, the Grants Uranium Mining District was the primary location of uranium extraction and production activities in New Mexico. Several mines make up the Grants mining belt, which spans along the southern margin of the San Juan Basin in Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, and Bernalillo Counties. Second to Wyoming, New Mexico has the highest Uranium reserves in the United States. Today, the New Mexico Mining Museum in Grants helps preserve the history, significance, and legacy of the atomic heroes who worked in the mines.
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