radiation

Members of the Navajo Nation will rally at the U.S. Capitol next week to urge Congress to reauthorize a program that compensated people sicked by radiation who lived in a fallout zone or worked at uranium mines.

A top Democratic congressman says it will take a power shift to pass legislation to extend and expand a compensation program for people exposed to radiation following uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out by the federal government.

The Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act expired Friday after Congress failed to vote on a bipartisan bill that would have extended or expanded coverage.

Leaders of the Navajo Nation gathered on Capitol Hill this week in support of expanded compensation for those sickened by Cold War radiation exposure.

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez is pressing members of Congress to reauthorize and expand federal benefits for people known as downwinders who were exposed to radiation in the western U.S. during the Cold War.

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