The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which provides compensation for people harmed by exposure to nuclear testing and ...

Idaho Downwinders were elated to hear that the state was added back to legislation for compensation for impacts of nuclear ...

The program expired last year as a cost cutting measure. Though renewed, some still have qualms with the program.

The federal government’s program that gives payments to people sickened by nuclear testing or uranium mining is one step ...

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Editor's note: This story originally published on April 29, 2005. A long-awaited report on compensation for downwinders says there is no scientific reason to add Idaho or any specific region to a ...

Tona Henderson is the director of the Idaho Downwinders, a nonprofit that advocates for Idahoans to receive government compensation if they were impacted by nuclear fallout in the mid-20th century.

Under current procedures Idaho downwinders have to wait for Congress to decide whether they should be included in the compensation program.

The trip was a big hurdle more than a dozen years in the making for the Tularosa Basin Downwinders, who are fighting for their right to be included in the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

Congress created a compensation program for downwinder victims of US nuclear tests; limited to only certain counties in Utah, Nevada and Arizona. Sen. Mike Crapo, Idaho Republican, seeks to expand ...

It's because of them that Skippen has cosponsored a House joint memorial that, if passed, would ask Idaho's congressional delegation for help in getting compensation for the downwinders affected ...

BOISE - Decades after nuclear weapons were tested in western states, Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo is making an effort to compensate victims of radiation known as downwinders. Tona Henderson, a downwinder ...