Cash for US nuclear test victims

US victims of Cold War nuclear weapons development programmes would be guaranteed $150,000 (£105,000) and medical benefits under new legislation introduced.

The bill, co-sponsored by Senators Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, and Pete Domenici, a Republican from New Mexico, would patch holes in existing laws meant to compensate people exposed to radiation by fallout from nuclear tests, known as downwinders, or through mining uranium.