On Aug. 1, Tetonia’s little library on the southeast corner of Ruby Carson Memorial Park reopened its doors. This time, the person greeting book browsers is retired elementary school teacher
Dozens of community members gathered to celebrate the retirement of a mechanic who ran an Avenues repair shop for 34 years and served the Salt Lake neighborhood above and beyond.
Mi Vida uranium mine near Moab
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The film Downwinders and the Radioactive West has been airing on PBS Utah. Today we’re going to review a different part of America’s nuclear history. Susan Dawson and Gary Madsen are retired Utah State University professors whose research and Congressional testimony contributed to passage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. In addition to providing financial compensation to downwinders and uranium miners and others, RECA also acknowledged that Congress apologizes on behalf of the nation to individuals who were involuntarily subjected to increased risk of injury and disease to serve the national security interests of the United States. Professors Dawson’s and Madsen’s research from 1988 to 2010 focused on radiation exposures to underground and above ground uranium miners, uranium millworkers, and uranium transportatio