Posted: Feb 16, 2021 / 06:45 PM MSTUpdated: Feb 16, 2021 / 08:53 PM MSTST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4 News) — A figurative cloud remaining over southern Utah, there are no communities that have not been impacted by the tragedy of cancer, birth defects, or emotional and financial losses as a result of aboveground atomic testing that began in the 1950’s.Dubbed “downwinders,’ more than 60,000 people were exposed to radioactive fallout in southern Utah during nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site from 1951-58 and July of 1962.Claudia Peterson of St. George described her idyllic childhood growing up...…Posted: Feb 16, 2021 / 06:45 PM MSTUpdated: Feb 16, 2021 / 08:53 PM MSTST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4 News) — A figurative cloud remaining over southern Utah, there are no communities that have not been impacted by the tragedy of cancer, birth defects, or emotional and financial losses as a result of aboveground atomic testing that began in the 1950’s.Dubbed “downwinders,’ more than 60,000 people were exposed to radioactive fallout in southern Utah during nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site from 1951-58 and July of 1962.Claudia Peterson of St. George described her idyllic childhood growing up...WW…