The U.S. Senate has endorsed a major expansion of a compensation program for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing and the mining of uranium during the Cold War, with ...

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 ...

At the end of 2024, an attempt to reauthorize the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), which expired last summer, and expand its geographic reach fell apart. The Senate had passed ...