LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Dozens of former nuclear employees, their families and caretakers gathered this week at what was once headquarters for the top-secret program that produced the world's first ...

WASHINGTON -- For years, radiation experts at the nation's nuclear weapons sites failed to adequately protect workers from on-the-job hazards. Now, some of those experts are helping run a compensation ...

For years, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has been the face of a fight in Congress to reauthorize and expand access to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), which provides compensation to ...

Tina Cordova, a founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, protests in support of RECA expansion on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (Danielle Prokop/Source NM) In June of 2024 during the 118th ...

The Republican megabill passed by Congress on Thursday contains an extension and expansion of a program to compensate Americans who developed cancer from radiation exposure linked to the U.S. nuclear ...

() - Nevada veterans are awaiting the final passage of S.2220, a landmark bill that would acknowledge those who served at the ...

WASHINGTON, DC, USA, January 9, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Mesothelioma Compensation Center says, "If you are a Nuclear Navy Veteran or a power plant worker with ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A program to compensate people exposed to radiation from past nuclear weapons testing and manufacturing could be restarted and expanded under a provision added by U.S. senators to ...