The fund would also compensate roughly 300 uranium miners or members of their families.

More than 500 uranium miners died of lung cancer from 1950 to 1990.

The applicability of such data derived from uranium miners to the general population is central to the radon issue.

Can data on radon exposure and cancer risks in uranium miners be applied to the general population?

This we know from the effects on uranium miners, who have been heavily exposed.

In 1990, Congress apologized to uranium miners and others injured by nuclear testing.

And the impact on uranium miners would be eased by phasing in the new fuel gradually.

But the compensation program for uranium miners has raised questions by the Navajo tribe.

Journalists began to publish stories detailing the illnesses of uranium miners, giving them public attention.

Beginning in the 1960s, uranium miners were beginning to become ill with cancer at increasing rates.