Atomic Weapons Employee Law and Legal Definition
According to 42 USCS § 7384l [Title 42. The Public Health and Welfare; Chapter 84. Department of Energy; Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program; Program Administration], the term "atomic weapons employee" means any of the following:
(A) An individual employed by an atomic weapons employer during a period when the employer was processing or producing, for the use by the United States, material that emitted radiation and was used in the production of an atomic weapon, excluding uranium mining and milling.
(B) An individual employed--
(i) at a facility with respect to which the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, in its report dated October 2003 and titled "Report on Residual Radioactive and Beryllium Contamination at Atomic Weapons Employer Facilities and Beryllium Vendor Facilities", or any update to that report, found that there is a potential for significant residual contamination outside of the period in which weapons-related production occurred;
(ii) by an atomic weapons employer or subsequent owner or operators of a facility described in clause (i); and
(iii) during a period, as specified in such report or any update to such report, of potential for significant residual radioactive contamination at such facility.
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- Agreement State [Atomic Energy]
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- American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
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