More than 75 people who got cancer and allege that it is a result of breathing the radioactive uranium released from a nuclear processing facility in western Pennsylvania have won back the right to present four expert witnesses at trial in federal court.

A magistrate judge last July had recommended granting motions from Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group to exclude the expert testimony of four witnesses presented by the plaintiffs. But in an opinion issued last week, U.S. District Judge David Stewart Cercone of the Western District of Pennsylvania decided that all four pass muster and should be allowed to testify.

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