From Spectrum News yesterday:

A Detroit-area woman is among those hailing a new law that expands a federal trust fund that makes payments to those who may have been sickened by nuclear contamination. Kim Visintine, a local ER nurse practitioner, was raised in the St. Louis area with a career in the automotive industry that ultimately brought her to Michigan.

In 2000, her son was born in St. Louis with a rare brain cancer, underwent neurosurgeries at just days old and later went on chemotherapy. He died in 2006. In the years that followed, Visintine learned of others who grew up in the same area, who played around Coldwater Creek, which meandered through several municipalities in the region, and who had sick relatives or were sickened themselves. 

Under the expanded Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, people who can prove they or an authorized representative were in one one of 21 St. Louis-area ZIP codes, or parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alaska, New Mexico, Utah and Idaho for two years and suffered qualifying illnesses after Jan. 1, 1949, can choose between a $50,000 lump sum or reimbursement of medical expenses.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mi/michigan/news/2025/07/11/detroit-nurse-hails-new-law

The above case, in Coldwater Creek, St Louis, Missouri, is similar to that of the women living near the estuary waters used to cool Bradwell nuclear power station in Essex who suffered breast cancer at a frequency significantly higher than should be expected. To read the full account, click on this:

Lesson for opponents of nuclear power in Scotland as researchers revisit study of Essex nuclear power station and breast cancer incidence among mature women nearby to find an even greater risk, only a short distance from new Sizewell C, and ‘establishment bias and cover-up’

In Scotland excess cases of childhood cancers are likely to be linked to the Hunterston nuclear power stations in North Ayrshire and in particular to the regular refuelling spikes in emissions. For more detail on this:

Lesson for opponents of nuclear power in Scotland as researchers revisit study of Essex nuclear power station and breast cancer incidence among mature women nearby to find an even greater risk, only a short distance from new Sizewell C, and ‘establishment bias and cover-up’

On a much greater scale, Scotland’s cancer rate, the highest in Europe, seems clearly linked to our position immediately downstream and downwind of ‘the most toxic site in Europe‘, Sellafield, and the ‘most hazardous building’ in the UK, The Magnox Swarf Storage Silo, on the same site. For more detail:

‘Britain’s most hazardous building’ positioned perfectly to contaminate Scotland and make it the ‘cancer capital of Europe’