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AGATNA, June 20, 2024 (ABC Pacific) – Guam anti-nuclear advocates say they will continue to push for compensation for those exposed to deadly radiation during nuclear testing in the Pacific, despite a recent setback in the U.S. Senate.
The United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958, also spreading deadly radiation to so-called “downwind” areas elsewhere in the Pacific.
Guam had hoped to be included in the revised Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, but the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month did not renew the program, leaving its future in doubt.
Robert Celestial, president of the Pacific Fallout Survivors Association of Guam, said the unincorporated territory has no voice in Congress.
“There are still people (survivors) alive today who would have helped a lot of people if they had gotten through it earlier… Some frontline communities are really disappointed, but we won’t give up,” he said… PACNEWS
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