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People who lived near nuclear test and waste sites across the Mountain West and were sickened from their exposure to radiation are hopeful lawmakers will revive a program to help them. It comes amid a day of remembrance for so-called “downwinders".
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The year-end funding package addresses research for childhood cancers, but there's still no movement on the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which expired in the summer of 2024 and hasn't had a replacement despite an impassioned plea by several Tribes in September.
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The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expired on Friday, June 7, leaving many people who were affected by nuclear testing and research in the West without a way to get monetary support for their suffering. Supports of the act are still fighting for expansion of the act and trying to find other ways to revive the program.
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The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act is set to expire unless Congress acts to reauthorize it. If no action is made, the federal government won't accept claims postmarked after June 10, 2024.
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A team of students from Newcastle High School is designing an experiment that will reach the edge of earth's atmosphere in a suborbital rocket supplied by NASA.
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A federal fund that compensates people sickened by radiation from nuclear weapons testing is set to expire next year. However, a new proposal to both extend and expand it.
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Governors of Western states have signed letters supporting a pair of bills that would compensate more people who were exposed to radiation from nuclear...
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The Environmental Health Trust is holding a lecture and public forum in Jackson Monday night to discuss the potential dangers of cell phone and wireless…