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| Hanford. A Conversation about Nuclear Waste and Cleanup | Buy a book...
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| Author(s): | R. E Gephart |
| Publisher: | Battelle Press |
| ISBN: | 1574771345 |
| Format: | softback |
| 382pp | |
| Price: | $34.95 |
| Review Date: | 28 April 2003 |
| Review: | The Hanford Site created plutonium for nuclear weapons. This book is about the cleanup of the site – the largest and most complex environmental cleanup project in the USA. This book looks at Hanford from the beginning, when Hanford was one of the first two nuclear materials production sites of the Manhattan project. In 1944 it was the site of the first industrial scale production and release of radionuclides into the desert of Washington State. The release of contaminants was shrouded in secrecy for years. Here the author describes the end of the secrecy and the cleanup of the abandoned waste sites and the Nuclear Weapon Complex. He looks at the changing perceptions of risk associated with nuclear technology and at the future cleanup of Hanford. |