This program is intended to provide between $150,000 - $400,000 in financial compensation for civilian claimants who were civilian nuclear workers employed by the Department of Energy (DOE) or the Atomic Energy Commission – or their contractors or subcontractors – and exposed to government-created radiation, beryllium, or silica between 1940 up into the 2000s, and were subsequently diagnosed with a covered illness.
This federal program disburses benefits to DOE employees or, if deceased, to their spouse or children or grandchildren. These employees may have worked at a nuclear weapons facility, or a gaseous diffusion plant in Paducah, Kentucky; Portsmouth, Ohio; or Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Spouses or children or grandchildren are considered eligible survivors and may make a claim on behalf of a deceased family member who meets the criteria for the Department of Energy Workers compensation program.
If you were working for the Department of Defense or were in the military when you were working at these facilities, you do not qualify under this program.