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 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A panel of experts is recommending the government open the door to hearing cancer claims from people in all states who think they were affected by nuclear fallout from 1950s weapons tests in Nevada.
However, those cancer victims would have to prove it was the nuclear fallout that caused their illness, and making that case would be very difficult.
The recommendation was released Thursday by a panel under the National Research Council, the chief operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences. The panel's finding is a nod to scientific data that wasn't available in 1990 when the government initially apologized to cancer victims with a law that set up a compensation fund.
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