Residents in St. Charles County and surrounding areas gathered Tuesday evening at the St. Charles City-County Library in St. Peters for a town hall to learn more about the recently expanded Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

Eligible residents can receive compensation if they got sick after living, working or going to school near nuclear radiation in 21 Missouri ZIP codes that were approved and added by Congress to RECA over the summer. Individuals are eligible if they developed cancers or other diseases due to radiation exposure from U.S. nuclear weapons testing or from uranium mining.

St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles County had not been included in the original program, despite well-documented contamination from World War II-era bomb making. The RECA expansion did

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