Martin Heinrich (D-NM), who championed legislation ... The Tularosa downwinders and uranium miners have experienced the real-life costs of radiation exposure for generations,” Heinrich said.

Uranium is the naturally occurring element with the highest atomic number. Its discovery in 1789 in the mineral pitchblende (or uraninite) is credited to the German chemist Martin Heinrich ...

Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., joined Sen ... and people who worked in New Mexico’s uranium mines from 1971-1990 would get RECA compensation for the first time ever. “In New Mexico and across ...