IDAHO COMMUNITY GROUP REQUESTS PUBLIC MEETINGS ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS FALLOUT COMPENSATION
The Snake River Alliance called on the National Academy of Sciences today to hold a public meeting in Idaho to discuss expanding the scope of legislation intended to compensate individuals who became ill due to exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons testing fallout at the Nevada Test Site. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), passed in 1990, provides for financial compensation to people who lived “downwind” from above ground nuclear tests in the Nevada desert or to miners who worked underground in uranium mines. Currently, the federal government compensates only those downwinders who lived in one of 21 rural counties …
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