The NIOSH Radiation Dose Reconstruction Program has yielded thousands of successfully processed claims for workers’ compensation.Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, the program helps ensure that energy workers who developed cancers from occupational radiation exposures—or surviving family members—are rightfully compensated for their illnesses. Since the program's inception in 2002, ORAU and its partners NV5/Dade Moeller and MJW Technical Services, Inc., have reconstructed radiation doses for current and former workers of DOE and atomic weapons employers.
Learn how ORAU impacts the lifecycle of a STEM employee, from offering K-12 STEM education courses all the way through professional development programs for researchers.
When Jim Sears retired from the U.S. Air Force after 33 years of service, friends and mentors told him he would miss two things: the people and the mission. Since joining ORAU as senior vice president a year ago, Sears says those are the things that keep him coming to work every day. That "has really been better than I could have expected for my first step on this second mountain of a journey," he said during a recent interview for Further Together: The ORAU Podcast. In this episode Sears discusses his career journey, the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in an ever-changing federal government landscape, why he and his wife moved to East Tennessee. and what brings him joy.
