{"id":51850,"date":"2019-10-15T21:40:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T21:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/10\/15\/governors-of-western-states-want-nuclear-testing-compensation-expanded\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:13:55","slug":"governors-of-western-states-want-nuclear-testing-compensation-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/10\/15\/governors-of-western-states-want-nuclear-testing-compensation-expanded\/","title":{"rendered":"Governors of Western states want nuclear testing compensation expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BOISE, Idaho \u2014 Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing exposed more states and more people to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/08\/06\/cancer-study-of-nuclear-test-site-expected-to-finish-in-2019\/\" target=_blank>radiation fallout and resulting cancers<\/a> and other diseases than the federal government currently recognizes, Western governors said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Western Governors\u2019 Association on Friday sent letters to the U.S. Senate and U.S. House urging passage of proposed changes to a law involving \u201cdownwinders.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. between 1945 and 1992 conducted more than 1,000 nuclear weapons tests, nearly 200 in the atmosphere. Most were conducted in Western states or islands in the Pacific Ocean. <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2015\/07\/15\/70-years-after-atomic-bomb-test-residents-seek-compensation\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635725865380734739-trinity-test-70th-ann-weigjpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">70 years after atomic bomb test, residents seek compensation<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">When a flash of light beamed from the arid New Mexico desert early on July 16, 1945, residents of the historic Hispanic village of Tularosa felt windows shake and heard dishes fall. Some in the largely Catholic town fell to their knees and prayed.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The changes to the 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act would add all of Nevada, Arizona and Utah, and include for the first time downwinders in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico and the island territory of Guam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The changes would also include increasing the maximum payment to $150,000 for someone filing a claim. Compensation currently ranges from lump sums of $100,000 for uranium workers to $50,000 for those who lived downwind of the Nevada Test Site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new legislation called the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2019 would also include those who lived downwind of the 1945 Trinity Test in New Mexico\u2019s Tularosa Basin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe encourage you to expeditiously consider and approve this important legislation, which acknowledges that nuclear weapons production and testing has had much broader impacts than currently recognized by statute,\u201d the governors wrote in letters to each chamber signed by Oregon Democratic Gov. Kate Brown and North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tona Henderson is the director of Idaho Downwinders, which for years has sought the inclusion of Idaho in the compensation program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said 14 of her 38 family members in the Emmett area in southwestern Idaho have died of cancer, the youngest at 15, and many others have survived that and other diseases. She has battled cancer and other health issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the nuclear testing, farmers would go out to their fields on summer mornings to find them covered with dust carried on the wind from the nuclear blasts, she said. The dust occurred so often, she said, it picked up the name \u201csummer frost.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know why we weren\u2019t included,\u201d said Henderson, who was an infant growing up on her parents\u2019 dairy farm during the tail end of the atmospheric testing in the early 1960s. \u201cOther than the government didn\u2019t want to admit that they did something wrong.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2017\/02\/09\/new-report-could-shed-light-on-health-impacts-of-a-bomb-test\/\" target=_blank> Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium<\/a> in New Mexico is another group seeking recognition as having been adversely affected by nuclear testing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t wonder if we\u2019re going to get cancer, we wonder when,\u201d said Tina Cordova, a cancer survivor and co-founder of the Tularosa consortium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was first passed in 1990 as an alternative to costly litigation to ensure the federal government met its financial responsibilities to workers who became sick as a result of the radiation hazards of their jobs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposed legislation on the Senate side was introduced earlier this year by U.S. Republican Sen. 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