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 ...

St. George residents who lived through decades of health consequences following radiation exposure were troubled by the ...

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 ...

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

Activists for victims of the nation’s nuclear development and testing programs descended on Washington this week in hopes of pushing forward legislation to renew and expand a compensation fund that ...

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 ...