"From 1945 to 1947, 18 people were injected with plutonium by Manhattan project doctors. [...]
The government covered up most of these radiation mishaps until 1993, when President Bill Clinton ordered a change of policy and federal agencies then made available records dealing with human radiation experiments, as a result of Welsome's work. [...]
The committee issued a controversial 1995 report which said that "wrongs were committed" but it did not condemn those who perpetrated them. The final report came out on October 3, 1995, the same day as the verdict in the O.J. Simpson case, when much of the media's attention was directed elsewhere." [0]
"The US government settled with the victims' families, paying $400,000 per family." [1]