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Time is running out for Kentucky victims of nuclear tests. Congress must do what's right.
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 6 days agoMaury and more than 400 other protesters, including the actor Martin Sheen, entered the perimeter of...
Nuclear Testing Victims’ Compensation Program Only Days Away From Lapsing
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 day agoTricia Byrnes, a state representative in Missouri, said on the conference call there were three...
Federal downwinders act set to expire if House doesn't act
KTNV Las Vegas· 19 hours agoThe boundary of the Nevada Test Site — where atmospheric nuclear bombs were detonated beginning in 1951 — was only ...
Utah’s congressional delegation wants to keep RECA going, with concerns about expanding costs
Utah News Dispatch via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJust days before the expiration of a federal compensation fund to help people exposed to radiation...
New Mexico's nuclear downwinders have a week to convince Congress on reparations
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe RECA program offers single payments to nuclear workers in northern New Mexico affected by...
Congress must act now to help Americans still suffering from the legacy of nuclear tests
The Hill· 2 days agoNearly 80 years have passed since the atomic bomb created by J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan...
U.S. House speaker reverses on radiation compensation bill
Nevada Current via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIn a statement that came less than four hours after Johnson’s office said a proposal to expand the...
New windows can darken electronically
Elko Daily Free Press· 2 days agoBreakfast at the Hanington House is a dark affair. When the summer sun climbs over the Humboldt Range in the east, wife Mira immediately closes the...
Remembering the life of GROVER LEWIS
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 4 days agoGrover Lewis, a pioneering mathematician and key figure in the development of early computing, passed away on May 16, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Born in 1936 in Grady, Arkansas ...
Radiation exposure compensation program in limbo. What that means for Idaho downwinders
The Idaho Statesman· 2 days agoRepublican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives flip-flopped on a program to compensate people the federal government exposed to radiation, as advocates held their stance that now ...