NH #660: RECA LIVES!  Dawn Chapman on DC Meetings, Hawley Support for Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

NH #660: RECA LIVES! Dawn Chapman on DC Meetings, Hawley Support for Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

Hand-out prepared by Navajo Nation and given to members of Congress during meetings on the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). KEYSTONE PHOTO: The team that educated Congress for passage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. (l-r) Christen Commuso, Reyaun Francisco, Karen Nickel, Dawn Chapman, Rep. Tricia Byrnes, Rep Chantelle Nickson-Clark This Week’s Featured Interview: Dawn…

NH #644: Nat’l Monument Loophole Still Allows Grand Canyon Uranium Mining!  Leona Morgan of Haul No

NH #644: Nat’l Monument Loophole Still Allows Grand Canyon Uranium Mining! Leona Morgan of Haul No

Nat’l Monument Loophole Still Allows Grand Canyon Uranium Mining! Leona Morgan of Haul No This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness: Why do people continue to think that being a tourist on a radioactive nuclear explosion site is a good idea? Selfies at the Trinity site Links:

NH #641: Downwinders Lobby in DC for Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) + Dangers of DU Weapons in Ukraine

NH #641: Downwinders Lobby in DC for Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) + Dangers of DU Weapons in Ukraine

Downwinders Lobby in DC for Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) + Dangers of DU Weapons in Ukraine This Week’s Featured Interviews Depleted Uranium Weapons in Ukraine – Damacio Lopez: Map of sites in the U.S. where depleted uranium (DU) weapons have been manufactured and/or tested. (March, 1993) – supplied by Damacio Lopez from his upcoming…

NH #557: Nuclear Downwinders (That’s All of Us): Journalist/Playwright Mary Dickson

NH #557: Nuclear Downwinders (That’s All of Us): Journalist/Playwright Mary Dickson

This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear Downwinders – and that would be more of us than you might suspect.   Mary Dickson is a Salt Lake City journalist and writer whose award-winning play, Exposed, puts a human face on the cost of nuclear testing. She has been recognized by the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility for her lifetime…

NH #526: Radiation Exposure Compensation Act – RECA – SPECIAL: Time Running Out for Downwinders of Trinity, Nuke Tests, Uranium Miners

NH #526: Radiation Exposure Compensation Act – RECA – SPECIAL: Time Running Out for Downwinders of Trinity, Nuke Tests, Uranium Miners

This Week’s SPECIAL Featured Interviews: Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was enacted by Congress in 1990 to provide one-time benefits to persons who have likely developed cancer or other specified diseases after exposure to uranium mining, milling or transport, and from radioactive fallout from atomic weapons testing in certain areas of Utah, Nevada and Arizona. …

NH #474: Trinity A-Bomb at 75 – Downwind of New Mexico’s “Dirty Bomb”: Tina Cordova, Joni Arends

NH #474: Trinity A-Bomb at 75 – Downwind of New Mexico’s “Dirty Bomb”: Tina Cordova, Joni Arends

Trinity downwinder Tina Cordova First photo of the Atomic Age – the Trinity atomic bomb test of July 16, 1945, 0.025 seconds after detonation. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Trinity Downwinders advocating for justice: Tina Cordova grew up in her family home in the Tularosa Basin, 40 miles from the explosion of the first atomic bomb…