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Did a Tri-Cities scientist eat radioactive uranium in the ‘80s to prove that it is harmless?. Maybe, says a recent new fact check by Snopes.com. Galen Winsor was a Richland nuclear chemist who ...
Although uranium enrichment and plutonium breeding were slowly phased out, the nuclear legacy left an indelible mark on the Tri-Cities. Since World War II, the area had developed from a small farming community to a booming "Atomic Frontier" to a powerhouse of the nuclear-industrial complex. Decades of federal investment created a community of ...
It’s the latest in a series of 10-figure economic development deals pending in or near Tri-Cities, Wash. A nuclear fuel company promising $4.5B project and 1,000 jobs is wooing an Eastern WA ...
They are able to remove up to 95% of uranium of contaminated water in 24 hours, and experiments in Chernobyl have demonstrated that they can concentrate on 55 kg of plant dry weight all the cesium and strontium radioactivity from an area of 75 m 2 (stabilized material suitable for transfer to a nuclear waste repository). [33]
Chart describing the processing of uranium. The Manhattan Project feed materials program located and procured uranium ores, and refined and processed them into feed materials for use in the Manhattan Project's isotope enrichment plants at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and its nuclear reactors at the Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state.
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Harold Ralph McCluskey (July 12, 1912 – August 17, 1987) was a chemical operations technician at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant located in Washington State; he is known for having survived exposure to the highest dose of radiation from americium ever recorded. [2]