Compensation Program for Health Damage From Alaska Atomic Weapons Tests Is Extended

Expanded radiation exposure law could be 'huge' for area nuclear workers, benefit advisor says

Workers exposed to nuclear waste in the Paducah area may now be eligible for compensation through the expanded Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which was signed into law as part of President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill.”

Trinity Test Area Victims Get RECA Aid

Nearly 80 years after the world’s first atomic bomb test rocked southern New Mexico, residents impacted by the fallout are finally eligible for federal compensation under a newly signed law by President Donald Trump, marking a historic step toward justice for thousands who have suffered rare cancers and health issues for generations, Axios reported. Residents living near the 1945 Trinity nuclear test site are now eligible for federal compensatio…

Hawley outlines next steps after RECA signed into law

ST. LOUIS - Now that the expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) has been signed into law, Missouri U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, who has pushed for such funding for several years, is looking ahead to the next steps. The measure allows thousands of Missourians from 21 different zip codes to apply for financial compensation if they were exposed to nuclear contamination left behind from the World War II-era Manhattan Project. Cit…

Compensation program for health damage from Alaska atomic weapons tests is extended

While most of the tests covered by the act were conducted in Nevada, the program also covers health damages from underground weapons tests conducted on Alaska’s Amchitka Island in 1965, 1969 and 1971.

Compensation program for health damage from Alaska weapons tests is extended

Harlequin Beach on Amchitka Island is seen in this undated photo. The island, now part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, was the site of atomic weapons tests in 1965, 1969 and 1971. (Photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)People who might have been exposed to radiation from atomic weapons tests conducted in the Aleutians half a century ago have extra time to apply for compensation from a federal program, under the sw…

UCS, Hawley praise inclusion of radiation compensation in megabill - ExchangeMonitor

The final version of the budget reconciliation package signed into law July 4 by President Donald Trump includes a long-sought bipartisan proposal to extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). “After nearly two years of negotiations—and two separate passages of RECA packages by the Senate in 2023 and 2024,” the RECA expansion was included in the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” longtime sponsor Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said in a press …