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- Title
A (Bad) Trip to the Most Radioactive Place in America.
- Authors
Frank, Joshua
- Abstract
The following is an adapted excerpt from the preface of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America (Haymarket Books, 2022) * * * If you're like any number of people I've talked to over the last few years, you aren't really sure what Hanford is all about. But here's a modest primer: Hanford was home to the US government's gargantuan plutonium operation. Having grown up in Billings, on the dry plains of eastern Montana, I felt on familiar ground when I first visited the town of Richland, Washington - just a stone's throw from Hanford's cordoned-off boundary. "Tom Carpenter runs the very best Hanford watchdog organization in the country, with the caveat that it's pretty much the only one", Jeff, who, for decades, has extensively covered regional environmental issues, told me.
- Subjects
AMERICA; FREEDOM of Information Act (U.S.); NUCLEAR energy; WHISTLEBLOWING
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article