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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 ...

Several months after the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was expanded to include 21 Missouri ZIP codes, the Justice Department reports that $8.57 million worth of claims have been approved for ...

Tona Henderson, an Idaho downwinder, is pictured inside the Rumor Mill Bakery in Emmett in 2013. Henderson was part of a press conference Monday featuring activists and politicians who are pushing for ...

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expires this summer. The initial bill passed the Senate earlier this year but has yet to be considered in the House. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has been pushing ...

(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 ...

U.S. Sens. Ben Ray Luján and Martin Heinrich have joined other senators on both sides of the aisle in reintroducing the Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act in an effort to revive and ...

Legislation to expand a program that compensates people who got sick after experiencing atomic radiation from nuclear bomb tests or uranium mining could have a new chance at passage, but Sen. Ben Ray ...

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Seated: Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council Crystalyne Curley (left) and Leslie Begay, a veteran and former uranium miner (right). Standing: Julia Torres (left) and Maggie Billiman (right) who are ...