In September of 2002, the team of Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), MJW and Dade Moeller and Associates (DADE) were awarded a multi-million dollar contract to assist the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) located in Cincinnati, OH with the implementation of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA). This federal law allows for compensation of DOE workers or their survivors for radiation-related cancers. MJW's role in the project is to provide our internal dosimetry expertise to calculate doses to claimants. MJW staff are also involved with management and tracking of claims and interviews of claimants. For this project, the MJW Corporation internal dosimetry experts have conducted over 25,000 dose reconstructions. (Please visit www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas for more details).
From 1997 to 2001, MJW was contracted to perform internal dose assessments for individuals who worked at the Mound facility in Ohio between the early 1940's through 1988. This work, the largest project of its kind ever performed for Department of Energy workers, included intensive records review and research, nuclide biokinetic model development, creation of dose screening algorithms and performance of complex dose assessments using specialized software. Phase I of the contract was completed in September 2000. Phase II was completed in September of 2001. MJW staff completed 1550 dose assessments for the Phase II portion of the project. A total of more than 150,000 person hours were required to complete the project at a cost of approximately $9 million.
Since 1996 MJW has provided radiological consulting services to CANiT, a bipartisan group consisting of county officials and legislators concerned with the cleanup and removal of FUSRAP legacy material from the western New York area. In this capacity MJW has reviewed and commented on both DOE and USACE documentation relating to the cleanup efforts and has provided assistance with public and official meetings where issues of the day are discussed.