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Veterans' Potential Exposure to Ionizing Radiation
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How to get information  
There are a number of organizations you may contact to get your ionizing radiation exposure history depending on the circumstances of your exposure. Please note that AFRRI does NOT maintain dosimetry information for anyone other than its employees.
Service-related radiation injury  
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the best place to start if you believe you have a military service-related radiation injury. You can contact your local VA office or for assistance please go to:
http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/radiation/military-exposure.asp
Veterans of atomic testing  
If you believe you were exposed to radiation during atomic testing in Nevada or the South Pacific, contact the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Nuclear Test Personnel Review Program—How to File a Claim:
http://www.dtra.mil/SpecialFocus/NTPR/NTPRHome.aspx

Or via postal mail to this address:
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
RD-NTSN/NTPR
8725 John J. Kingman Rd., MSC 6201
Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-6201
Specific-service records  
Each of the military services also maintains its own exposure records. Below are the addresses for each of the service dosimetry centers to which you may submit a written request.
Naval Dosimetry Center
8901 Wisconsin Ave.
Bethesda, MD 20889-5614
Contact: CDR Lisa K. Kennemur
Phone: 301-295-5410
Fax: 301-295-598
E-mail: lisa.kennemur@med.navy.mil
 U.S. Army Dosimetry Center
Attn: AMSAM-TMD-SD, Bldg. 5417
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000
Contact: Mr. William S. Harris, Jr.
Phone: 256-876-1786
Fax: 256-876-3816
E-mail: william.harris3@us.army.mil		 U. S. Air Force Radiation Dosimetry Lab
2947 5th Street, Area B, Bldg 0840
Wright-Patterson Base, OH 45433-7212
Contact: Mr. Gerald M. Achenbach
Phone: 937-656-6687
Fax: 937-255-7442
E-mail: Gerald.Achenbach@wpafb.af.mil
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
Finally, if you have exhausted all other options or if you are a civilian and meet the criteria of the Department of Justice’s Radiation Exposure Compensation Program, you may be eligible for compensation according to the program description.

On October 5, 1990, Congress passed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (“RECA” or “the Act”), 42 U.S.C. § 2210 note, providing for compassionate payments to individuals who contracted certain cancers and other serious diseases as a result of their exposure to radiation released during above-ground nuclear weapons tests or as a result of their exposure to radiation during employment in underground uranium mines. The 1990 Act provided fixed payments in the following amounts: $50,000 to individuals residing or working "downwind" of The Nevada Test Site; $75,000 for workers participating in above-ground nuclear weapons tests; and $100,000 for uranium miners.

See http://www.usdoj.gov/civil/torts/const/reca/about.htm for details and contact information.

Information developed by AFRRI staff, 5/6/09; updated 8/31/11

 

 

 

 

 
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