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Congress points fingers, but refuses to lend Utah nuclear fallout victims a helping hand

Stalemate and bickering over RECA’s demise and possible revival continues.

(AP) A mushroom cloud rises over the Nevada Test Site after the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission detonated a low-yield nuclear weapons effects test in Mercury, Nev., 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, July 11, 1962. The device fired underground at a depth shallow enough to form a crater.