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How the Atomic Age Left Us a Half-Century of Radioactive Waste via Time Magazine

Posted on 2015/01/23 by norma field

By Kate Brown Dealing with nuclear waste at a plant in Washington State has proved an intractable problem. Why? The Nuclear Disaster You Never Heard of This Is How TIME Explained the Atomic Bomb in 1945 In 1951, atomic optimism … Continue reading →

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New Book Studies Atomic Cities Of Richland, Wash. And Ozersk, Russia via Northwest Public Radio

Posted on 2013/10/29 by norma field

In southeast Washington, and in southern Russia there are two atomic cities a world apart but with surprising similarities. The new book “Plutopia” studies the cities of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia. Both places made plutonium for nuclear bombs. And … Continue reading →

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【event】In the Shadow of Plutopia: Living Downwind and Downstream from the World’s First Plutonium Plants via ourhanfordhistory.org

Posted on 2013/10/17 by norma field

Kate Brown, author Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters Friday, October 25, 2013 7 p.m.–9 p.m. Washington State University Tri-Cities East Auditorium [ourhanfordhistory.org ] 
While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race … Continue reading →

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A people’s truth via Aeon

Posted on 2012/12/06 by norma field

The vast Hanford nuclear site was supposedly safe for its neighbours. Now they are fighting the experts for their story to be told Kate Brown 03 December 2012 Tom Bailie grew up on a dryland farm in Mesa, Washington, just … Continue reading →

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