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Flashback: Secret experiments in a Cook County preserve aided atomic bomb efforts — and left nuclear waste behind via Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2020/01/24 by nfield

[…] If you walk down the wrong path, you’re going to miss it. And if you visit too close to dusk, you might get lost trying to leave. That was probably the intent of the scientists who were doing nuclear … Continue reading →

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State fines Hanford nuclear site $1M for restricting info via Stars and Stripes

Posted on 2020/01/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

RICHLAND, Wash. — The state of Washington has issued a $1 million fine to a federal nuclear weapons production site for restricting access to critical data. The Washington Department of Ecology issued the fine on Monday to the Hanford Nuclear … Continue reading →

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Storm of Tumbleweeds Buries Cars, Terrifies Drivers and Astounds Police via The New York Times

Posted on 2020/01/02 by nfield

By Maria Cramer In ghost towns and gunslinger movies, they drift in ones or twos, cast wherever the wind takes them. Along a long stretch of road in Washington State, the tumbleweeds took over instead: more like monsters out of science … Continue reading →

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Nuclear waste removal project moving forward via WKBW

Posted on 2019/11/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Waste from Manhattan Project stored in Lewiston LEWISTON, N.Y. (WKBW) — People who live near a nuclear waste storage site got an update on a plan to remove the wasteWednesday night.  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provided an update on … Continue reading →

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Radioactive Waste Could Be Killing Residents in Missouri Community via TruthOut

Posted on 2019/11/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Austin Price […] For years, many of these residents have filed lawsuits against Cotter Corporation and Mallinckrodt, the companies responsible for dumping the radioactive nuclear waste in the unlined landfill (a former limestone quarry) as well as in open piles … Continue reading →

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US official: Research finds uranium in Navajo women, babies via AP

Posted on 2019/10/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By MARY HUDETZ ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — About a quarter of Navajo women and some infants who were part of a federally funded study on uranium exposure had high levels of the radioactive metal in their systems, decades after mining … Continue reading →

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It Happened Here: JFK breaks ground for nuclear reactor at Hanford via Yakima Herald

Posted on 2019/10/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

DONALD W. MEYERS […] In an event at the Hanford nuclear reservation attended by 30,000 people Sept. 26, 1963, Kennedy presided over the groundbreaking for a nuclear reactor that would generate electricity while creating plutonium for use in nuclear weapons. … Continue reading →

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How Nuclear Power powers the Bomb: The Interdependence of Military and Civilian Technologies via IPPNW

Posted on 2019/09/29 by nfield

The military origins of nuclear technology The discovery of the atomic chain reaction in 1938 paved the way for the military use of nuclear technology. Throughout the Second World War, Germany, the UK, the Soviet Union and the US were … Continue reading →

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Inside America’s most toxic nuclear waste dump, where 56 million gallons of buried radioactive sludge are leaking into the earth via Business Insider

Posted on 2019/09/24 by yukimiyamotodepaul

James Pasley Hanford Nuclear Reservation is the most polluted area in the United States. Buried beneath the complex is 56 million gallons of radioactive waste that need to be dealt with. The reservation produced the plutonium for Fat Man, the … Continue reading →

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Hanford officials move nuclear waste from Columbia River via FiberOne

Posted on 2019/09/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation have removed the last of the highly radioactive sludge stored in underwater containers near The Columbia River. […] Perry says the project came in ahead of schedule and under budget … Continue reading →

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