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Someone else can clean it up General Atomics looks to offload uranium Superfund site in Colorado via the San Diego Reader

Posted on 2017/07/25 by nfield

After more than a decade in mothballs, a subsidiary of San Diego’s General Atomics has indicated that it intends to offload the cleanup work at a uranium mine it owns in central Colorado. The Cañon City facility, owned by the … Continue reading →

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Grounded Podcast: Hanford’s Dream of the 90s via Oregon Department of Energy

Posted on 2017/07/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

For more than 40 years, the Hanford Nuclear Site near Richland, Washington produced plutonium for America’s nuclear weapons program. The once top-secret Manhattan Project site ended production in 1989. When the focus at Hanford shifted to cleanup in the early … Continue reading →

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The Fallout via Guernica

Posted on 2017/07/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

In St. Louis, America’s nuclear history creeps into the present, leaching into streams and bodies […] Her youngest son was napping when the phone rang. Dawn was sitting on the top bunk in his bedroom folding laundry. The man on … Continue reading →

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Radiation Alarm Prompts Order for Workers to Seek Cover via The Seattle Times

Posted on 2017/06/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

SPOKANE — Radiation warning alarms sounded Thursday at a former plutonium-production plant in Washington state, prompting a take-cover order that sent about 350 workers seeking cover indoors during the demolition of a plant that for decades had helped make nuclear … Continue reading →

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Radiation and gender: One basis for new nuclear weapons treaty via Pressenza

Posted on 2017/05/25 by nfield

By the Nuclear Information and Resource Service and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research This week, an historic nuclear weapons ban proposal was unveiled at the United Nations. The proposed agreement recognizes, for the first time, that nuclear weapons … Continue reading →

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Latest Hanford alert is another reminder of nuclear industry’s many challenges via The Seattle Times

Posted on 2017/05/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Nuclear energy seems custom-made as a solution for providing electricity without adding to climate change. But its downsides are big, and they are not only Americans’ fear of meltdowns and mushroom clouds. […] But that happened this past week when … Continue reading →

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Tunnel collapse latest safety issue at Washington state nuclear site via Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2017/05/10 by kojimaaiko

Thousands of workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation were told to stay home Wednesday as efforts began to plug a hole that developed in the partial collapse of a tunnel containing dangerous radioactive waste from the building of nuclear bomb … Continue reading →

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Love, loss and nuclear reactors via High Country News

Posted on 2017/05/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Two new books explore the perspectives of women during the West’s nuclear boom. Dozens of nonfiction books have delved into the history of nuclear facilities in the West and the Manhattan Project, detailing the Department of War’s secret acquisition of … Continue reading →

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Buyouts coming for homeowners near West Lake Landfill? via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Posted on 2017/04/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

For some north St. Louis County homeowners, the prospect of exposure to the area’s decades-old radioactive contamination is only one source of concern: Another is what to do with their homes, which could struggle to attract buyers. “They didn’t anticipate … Continue reading →

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“It’s a Cover-Up, Not a Clean-Up”: Nuclear Waste Smolders in Sites Across the US via Truthout

Posted on 2017/03/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Renowned wartime journalist Wilfred Burchett described the damage from the atomic bomb that flattened Hiroshima as “far greater than photographs can show.” When it comes to the enduring legacy of the Manhattan Project on home soil, the damage to the … Continue reading →

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