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Guam lawmakers present resolution honoring downwinders, urge inclusion in Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
Summary
A senator from the Guam Legislature presented Resolution 10-38 at the Guam Congress Building on the National Day of Remembrance for Downwinders, honoring residents who say they were affected by radioactive fallout and calling for Guam’s inclusion in the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), the presenter said.
A senator from the Guam Legislature presented Resolution 10-38 at the Guam Congress Building on the National Day of Remembrance for Downwinders, honoring residents who say they were affected by radioactive fallout from U.S. nuclear testing and calling for Guam’s inclusion in the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), the presenter said.
The resolution “pauses to honor the lives and sacrifices of those who lived and [to] renew our collective call for justice,” the senator said, citing the Marshall Islands’ Pacific Proving Grounds and saying fallout from testing between 1945 and 1962 reached Guam.
Why it matters: supporters said expanding RECA to Guam would recognize past harms, provide health-care access connected to radiation…
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