Atomic frontier days : Hanford and the American West / John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly.

By:

Findlay, John M, 1955-

Contributor(s):

Hevly, Bruce William

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biographyPublication details: Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 368 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0295802987
9780295802985

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Atomic frontier days.DDC classification:

623.4/51190979751 22

LOC classification:

TD898.12.W2 F56 2011eb

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Contents:

Plutonium, production, and pollution : Hanford's career as federal enclave -- The atomic city of the West : Richland and the Tri-Cities -- The politics of Hanford : warfare and welfare -- Hanford and the Columbia River Basin : economy and ecology.

Summary: On the banks of the Pacific Northwest's greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert. The 586-square mile compound on the Columbia in eastern Washington is known both for its origins as part of the Manhattan Project, which made the first atomic bombs, and for the monumental effort now under way to clean up forty-five years' of waste from manufacturing plutonium for the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. Hanford routinely makes the news, as scientists, litigants, administrators, and politicians argue over its past and its future.

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On the banks of the Pacific Northwest's greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert. The 586-square mile compound on the Columbia in eastern Washington is known both for its origins as part of the Manhattan Project, which made the first atomic bombs, and for the monumental effort now under way to clean up forty-five years' of waste from manufacturing plutonium for the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. Hanford routinely makes the news, as scientists, litigants, administrators, and politicians argue over its past and its future.

English.

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