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World Marks 80th Anniversary of Trinity Test in New Mexico
NEW MEXICO, JUL 16 – The expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act makes about 10,000 Trinity Test downwinders eligible for $100,000 in reparations after decades of exclusion and health impacts.
- After 80 years of advocacy, Trinity downwinders qualify for RECA in the recent budget bill.
- U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján cited quote, noting eight decades of injustice for the victims and that the U.S. government never warned or evacuated residents near the Trinity Test site.
- In the Tularosa Basin and Carrizozo communities, Tina Cordova estimates upward of 10,000 residents have suffered health impacts, including cancers and infant deaths, from the Trinity Test.
- Despite expanded eligibility, the extension expires in two years, while the U.S. Justice Department advised waiting “for further guidance.”
- Beyond downwinders, uranium miners in multiple states are covered, though legislation also guts Medicaid, affecting many Trinity victims.
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