A fireball ascends from the first atomic artillery shell in history, tested at the Nevada Test Site in 1953. Radiation from the test site fell across the West, including in Montana and Idaho. (Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress)
The Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program clinic from Intermountain Health’s St. George Regional Hospital is holding public meetings in Nampa and several Utah cities to help people understand the recent changes made by Congress under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA.
The meetings will be held to inform the public about the reinstatement and expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which is a federal law that provides partial restitution to individuals who developed certain serious illnesses following exposure to radiation from the U.S. nuclear weapons program, or their survivors…