The federal government has reinstated the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which had expired in 2024. The federal law now covers more ground, including all of Utah, New Mexico and Idaho.

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act provides family compensation for health issues encountered from radioactive fallout when nuclear testing was being conducted at the Nevada Test Site. In addition to the new ground it covers, the stipend from the Radiation Exposure Act has doubled from $50,000 to $100,000.

According to a press release issued by Intermountain Health, the length of required exposure time decreased from 24 to 12 months from January 1951 to November 1962.

One of the factors that hasn’t changed is the types of qualifying cancers, which include:

Leukemia (but not chronic lymphocytic

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