Senate Passes Bill to Expand, Extend Compensation for Radiation Victims

Published on March 8, 2024

The Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill on March 7 that would expand and extend compensation for victims of radiation exposure. The final tally was 69–30. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act, pushed heavily by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), expands and extends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990 that is set to expire in June. The original bill only applied to victims of certain radiation in four states: Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and Colorado. The extension, if it passes in the House, would help victims in Kentucky, Missouri, Alaska, Colorado, Montana, Tennessee, Idaho, and Guam. It would also cover toxin victims of the Manhattan Project—which produced the atomic bomb that ended World War II—in Alaska, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and those in New Mexico, where the atomic bomb was tested....

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