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 ...

On a rainy Saturday afternoon, about 20 former residents of Robertson gathered in the lower level of First Missionary Baptist Church of Robertson in Hazelwood, many carrying folders thick with ...

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For more than three decades, the federal government sought to make amends to countless Americans who developed cancer after being exposed to radiation from nuclear testing in the Southwest or while ...

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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 ...

For Karen Nickel, reviving and expanding the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was bittersweet. Nickel and Dawn Chapman were part of Just Moms STL, a group that's been raising awareness and seeking ...

When nuclear tests detonated in Nevada during the 1950s and 1960s, a Salt Lake City physician knew danger would blow into town on the wind. So, he set about to protect his family from radiation. He ...

Calvin Ratliff points toward the factory where radioactive elements were once processed next to his childhood home in Venice, Ill., on June 10, 2024. Joshua Carter Belleville News-Democrat This story ...