Campaign Update

Disappointing End to Budget Talks for RECA Survivors

September 30, 2024

Passed in 1990, the need for RECA emerged after the first in-depth medical study in the 1980s—later found to have underestimated the full impact—of what the Cold War cost in terms of American lives.

Protest Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine Haul Route! 

August 13, 2024

PSR Northern Arizona will be joining the Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club at an Emergency Rally on August 24 to protest the hauling of radioactive uranium ore through the Navajo Nation.

Summer Reading

July 23, 2024

Updates on Rep. Grijalva, new OSHA heat rules, and resources on heat safety.

What the RECA Delay Means

July 2, 2024

Failure of the House to act on RECA puts untold thousands of lives in limbo.

Don’t Let RECA Expire!

June 3, 2024

This year tremendous momentum has built up behind legislation to finally bring justice to radiation victims who have been denied compensation for decades. Call Speaker Johnson to urge a vote to extend and expand RECA.

Memorial Day Reminder to Honor the Downwinders

May 25, 2024

What Is the Hold Up?  RECA Renewal Countdown Begins Earlier this month, Martin Fleck, PSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program Director, urged us to remember the plight of the Downwinders, whose…

Compensation Begins: A look back at the beginnings of RECA

May 23, 2024

Passed by the Senate in March, bi-partisan supporters of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) are pushing hard to get the House to vote on its fate before June 7,…

Staying Safe and Cool with PSR Arizona’s ‘Building Resilient Neighborhoods’

April 29, 2024

For more than a decade, PSR Arizona’s Building Resilient Neighborhoods (BRN) has kept Tucsonans safe from the heat through both Zoom and in-person workshops. Two-to-three hours in length, with workbooks…

Background on President Biden at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima

May 19, 2023

Analysis and background from PSR National’s Martin Fleck.

Trick Question: Can Nuclear Reactors Explode?

May 6, 2023

What the difference is between a nuclear reactor and a nuclear bomb? At the most fundamental level, no difference: both get their energy from nuclear fission.