Utah’s soils bear the scars of a nuclear past that continues to impact residents today. Between 1945 and 1962, nuclear tests at the Nevada Testing Grounds exposed Utah to nuclear fallout, and related ...

Utah residents affected by radiation exposure can now apply for expanded cancer compensation under the reinstated RECA ...

The Senate voted to expand compensation for victims of radiation exposure. Some Navajo Nation residents, who are among the most affected by nuclear fallout and environmental contamination, were ...

RECA compensation is for anyone who lived, worked or attended school in 21 ZIP codes and developed certain cancers or ...

A coalition of advocates and stakeholders called on Congress to take action in the lame-duck session to reauthorize the law compensating Americans exposed to nuclear radiation by the federal ...

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Jan. 27—WASHINGTON — A program to compensate uranium miners and people who lived downwind of nuclear bomb testing then developed certain cancers came to an end last summer, but Sens. Ben Ray Luján and ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – It’s been one year since Americans were last compensated for radiation exposure, as New Mexico advocates continue to urge Congress to bring it back. The Radiation Exposure ...

ST. LOUIS — Thursday, the House of Representatives narrowly passed President Donald Trump's massive policy bill. It includes something local advocates have been pushing for years now: compensation for ...