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 ...

This story was a collaboration between St. Louis Public Radio and the Belleville News-Democrat. Along the border of Venice and Madison in the metro-east, a 1.4 million-square-foot factory and former ...

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 ...

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 ...

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When nuclear tests detonated in Nevada during the 1950s and 1960s, a Salt Lake City physician knew danger would blow into town on the wind. So, he set about to protect his family from radiation. He ...

Nine months have passed since the law that compensates US victims of radiation exposure expired in June, and yet another opportunity to reinstate it fell to the wayside last week. The Radiation ...

SALT LAKE CITY — More than 40 Utah lawmakers are asking top leaders in Congress to reboot a program providing compensation to people exposed to radiation following nuclear weapons tests last century, ...

Marie Kirlie worked in the uranium mills of Church Rock in New Mexico from 1969 to 1974, while her late husband, Leon Kirlie, tested yellowcake and served as a supervisor at the same mill site. The ...