ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s been a long time coming in the fight for to compensate more people sickened by radiation exposure in the name of national security in the U.S. No one knows that better than ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — For decades, communities in Anderson, Morgan, and Roane counties have lived in the shadow of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign identifies a repository near Edgemont where 4 million tons of radioactive tailings from a former uranium mill have been ...

For Karen Nickel, reviving and expanding the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was bittersweet. Nickel and Dawn Chapman were part of Just Moms STL, a group that's been raising awareness and seeking ...

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 ...

(KFVS) - All Missouri residents who have filed claims under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act have received money, according to Sen. Josh Hawley. The Act helps victims of Manhattan Project-era ...

One year ago, Congress let a federal program end that compensated people who grew sick from mining uranium for nuclear weapons or from living downwind of nuclear weapons tests. In those 12 months, ...

Applications for the reauthorized and expanded Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) can now be found online at the United States Department of Justice's Civil Division. Downwinders and uranium ...

July 16 marks 80 years since the United States detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the desert of New Mexico. This marked the start of a decades-long nuclear testing program that exposed tens of ...

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) is closer to being reauthorized and expanded after being included in a Senate spending package. RECA provides payments to individuals affected by nuclear ...