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NM senators reintroduce bill to extend compensation program for atomic radiation exposure

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 ...
The New York Times

Have You Applied for Federal Compensation for Nuclear Radiation Exposure? We Want to Hear From You.

We’re hoping to speak to people who have filed a claim through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. We want to know what the experience was like. By Catie Edmondson Catie Edmondson, who covers ...
The Hill

Advocates call on Congress to reauthorize radiation compensation law in lame-duck session

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 ...
Stars and Stripes

‘All I can do is wait’: Deadline looms for veterans who became sick from atomic bomb tests, cleanups and were denied benefits

WASHINGTON — Michael Cobb, a former Navy seaman, witnessed the detonation of more than 20 atomic bombs over Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean in 1962 and 1963. He and other active-duty service ...
ABC15 Arizona

Advocates for Arizona radiation exposure victims score big win in Congress

After decades of fighting, advocates for those who faced radiation exposure in Arizona and elsewhere are getting a big win through President Donald Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill. That push in ...
KSDK

Forms of Hope: A survivor's journey through St. Louis' radiation exposure

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — Applications are officially open for survivors impacted by the radioactive waste in the St. Louis region. Former Missouri State Rep. Dr. Chantelle Jones will fill out a 24-page ...
KSDK

Left out of RECA, Metro East residents push for radiation compensation

MADISON, Ill. — One week after a group of people who live along Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis County celebrated the passage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, a group of Metro East ...
The Hill

Hawley highlights ‘Oppenheimer’ Oscar nominations to call for expansion of radiation compensation

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to highlight Americans seeking compensation for exposure to nuclear testing after Christopher Nolan’s biopic ...
The New York Times

Fund for Nuclear Waste Exposure Victims in Limbo as Congress Balks at Cost

Bipartisan efforts to extend and expand a program granting compensation to victims of government-caused nuclear contamination are faltering. It is set to expire in June. By Catie Edmondson Reporting ...
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First applications approved for nuclear bomb waste exposure compensation

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Alexis Parker is a breast cancer survivor. “I was diagnosed on August 22nd of 2016 with triple negative breast cancer. It was so aggressive I went from stage 2 to ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis-area residents now can apply for radiation exposure compensation. Here's how.

CLAYTON — St. Louis-area residents sickened by radiation exposure may now apply for financial compensation under a new federal program. Congress passed an expanded Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, ...