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U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, left, is flanked by Democratic Congressmen Gabe Vasquez, of New Mexico, and Pete Aguilar, of California, as she speaks during a news conference in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

U.S.

House Democrats dig in amid ongoing fight in Congress over compensation for US radiation victims

A top Democrat in the U.S. House says it will take a shift of power in Congress to ensure that legislation is finally passed to extend and expand a compensation program for people exposed to radiation following uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out by the federal government.

August 14, 2024

Veterans

‘All I can do is wait’: Deadline looms for veterans who became sick from atomic bomb tests, cleanups and were denied benefits

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act offers an apology and monetary compensation to individuals who contracted certain cancers and other serious diseases from exposure to radiation from above-ground nuclear weapons tests. But time is running out for veterans to file for compensation.

May 27, 2024

Troops of the U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division watch a plume of radioactive smoke rise on Nov. 1, 1951, after a blast at Yucca Flats, Nevada.

History

Victims of nuclear weapon development plan Capitol Hill barrage

Senators pushing to expand aid for radiation victims were infuriated in December when a provision to reauthorize a compensation fund that expires in June was stripped from the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, largely because of concerns about the projected $147B price tag.

January 13, 2024

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., answers questions in the basement of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

U.S.

Hawley said he’d make it ‘painful’ if he didn’t get way on defense bill. Senate called bluff

Sen. Josh Hawley wandered the halls of the Capitol, threatening to hold up a defense spending bill if it didn’t contain language expanding a program that gives federal benefits to people exposed to nuclear waste. The Senate passed the NDAA on Wednesday, without the radiation exposure provision.

December 15, 2023

On July 16, 1945, the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated approximately 60 miles north of White Sands National Monument.

U.S.

New Mexico families say negotiations in Congress are the last, best hope for nuclear fallout compensation

New Mexico families who have endured generations of sickness and death since the Trinity detonation in 1945 say time is running out to secure compensation from the federal government.

August 22, 2023

History

No 'Oppenheimer' fanfare for those caught in first atomic bomb's fallout

“Downwinders” from New Mexico communities that lived in the shadow of the 1945 atomic bomb test want their serious health struggles to finally be acknowledged.

July 30, 2023

A tour group walks in a geological repository, U.S. Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, storing transuranic radioactive waste in the desert between Hobbs and Carlsbad on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021

U.S.

How the federal military spending bill will impact NM nuclear projects

New Mexico’s national laboratories and its repository for nuclear waste - the only of its kind in the nation - received millions of dollars this year via an annual bill that provides funding for national-defense-related facilities across the U.S.

December 24, 2021

News

Pentagon preparing for a nuclear worst-case scenario at Fukushima

If the deteriorating situation at a Japanese nuclear plant veers toward a worst-case meltdown scenario, people across the country — including 86,000 American servicemembers, civilian employees and their dependents — could face an unprecedented atomic disaster.

March 16, 2011

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