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Map of the United States Showing Locations of Operating Nuclear Power ReactorsU.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Map I-131, from Nevada Test Site
Estimated time-integrated concentrations of Iodine131 in fresh cows milk in all counties of the contiguous U.S. resulting from all tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site.
National Cancer Institute map of Iodine-131 fallout from weapons testing
"The U.S. conducted 904 domestic nuclear weapons tests, both atmospheric and underground, at the Nevada Test Site from 1951 until 1992. During most of this time, the federal government did not warn people who lived downwind of the test site about any of the likely effects of radiation exposure. After years of denial, the government finally admitted culpability for withholding this information in the 1980s, and additional pressure from concerned lawmakers resulted in passage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, a compensation program for victims.
"Many of the people who were exposed to dangerously high levels of radioactive fallout-commonly known as "downwinders"-lived in Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and other Western states.
"A 1997 National Cancer Institute study found that fallout also traveled all the way to the East Coast, with some counties in Kansas, New York, Iowa and other states receiving more fallout than many western states. Iodine-131 is just one of over 150 radionuclides released by weapons testing." (Congressman Jim Matheson)
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