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 ...

Southern Utah's thousands of "downwinders" — people whose families suffered high rates of cancer attributed to U.S. nuclear weapons testing in the Nevada desert in the 1950s and '60s — could be ...

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 ...

Sheron Carter’s brother and grandfather died from cancer after working at the Nevada Test Site. Three years ago, the 66-year-old Las Vegas native was diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, she’s demanding ...

CLOSER THAN WE’VE EVER BEEN BEFORE. A BIG WIN LAST WEEK FOR DOWNWINDERS IN NEW MEXICO. THIS COMES AFTER THE SENATE APPROVED TO INCLUDE THEM IN THE RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION ACT. ACTION 7 NEWS ...

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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 ...

The U.S. Senate has endorsed a major expansion of a compensation program for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing and the mining of uranium during the Cold War, with ...

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 ...