Kidney disease is added to the covered illnesses
What the document says“or renal cancer or any other chronic renal disease, including nephritis and kidney tubal tissue injury”
The section amends section 5(a)(1)(A)(ii) of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to add renal cancer and any other chronic renal disease, including nephritis and kidney tubal tissue injury, to the illnesses covered for miners and for millers, core drillers and ore transporters, and to bring in people involved in remediation efforts at such a mine or mill.
What the document actually says“or renal cancer or any other chronic renal disease, including nephritis and kidney tubal tissue injury”
New illnesses are added to a claim rule. They are kidney cancer and long-term kidney disease.
Two kinds are named as examples. The change reaches miners and mill workers. Clean-up workers are also brought in.
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