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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 ...

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act has been a lifeline for some people and families exposed to toxins linked to decades-old nuclear weapons tests, but advocates say more people deserve ...

Members of tribal nations from Arizona and New Mexico have been in Washington, D.C. this week advocating for the House of Representatives to vote on a bill to reauthorize and expand the Radiation ...

The bipartisan “Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act” would expand and extend the program before its expiration in June. The Senate voted Thursday to reauthorize and expand a federal ...

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The idea is to expand the scope of the federal Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act (RECA), which helps provide financial compensation for some people who were impacted by the U.S.’s legacy of ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexicans at the heart of the “Downwinders” movement took to the nation’s capital on Wednesday, pleading with House leaders to pass a bill that would expand help for people ...

The U.S. Senate has endorsed a major expansion of a compensation program for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing and the mining of uranium during the Cold War, with ...

SANTA FE, N.M. >> The U.S. Senate has endorsed a major expansion of a compensation program for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing and the mining of uranium during ...