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CSI: Hanford, Complete with Nuclear Superheroes
Like a character out of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, I investigate legal cases—but mine are cases of pollution, oiling, and chemical mayhem, which are a little less grisly than those featured on...
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Restoration Amid Nuclear Waste and the Largest Environmental Cleanup in the U.S.
The front face of Hanford’s B Reactor, where uranium fuel slugs were loaded into the reactor when it was operating. The reactor began operating in September 1944; it was shut down from 1946-1948, and...
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Submit Your Comments: Studying Decades of Environmental Injuries at the...
This is a post by OR&R’s Charlene Andrade, Mary Baker, and Vicki Loe. Nuclear reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River in January 1960. The N Reactor is in the...
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What Do Hanford’s Latest Nuclear Waste Leaks Mean for Environmental Restoration?
This is a post by Vicki Loe and Charlene Andrade. Some of the older nuclear waste storage tanks at Hanford in southeast Washington. (U.S. Department of Energy) This past February, the U.S. Department...
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Swimming Upstream: Examining the Impacts of Nuclear-age Pollution on Columbia...
A view of the free-flowing section of Columbia River known as the Hanford Reach, along with the famous white bluffs that line it. (NOAA) Flowing freely through southeastern Washington is an...
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What Are Our Options for Restoring Lands Around Washington’s Hanford Nuclear...
The dry shrub-steppe habitat at Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation is rare for the region because it is so extensive, intact, and relatively healthy. (Department of Energy) Many people might be...
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Using a NOAA Tool to Evaluate Toxic Doses of Pollution at the Hanford Nuclear...
This is a post by Troy Baker, an environmental scientist in NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration. NOAA and partners are examining whether chromium released at Washington’s Hanford Nuclear...
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