Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West is a nonfiction book describing the history of the Hanford Site.It details the history of Hanford and the neighboring Tri-Cities region during World War II and the Cold War.
Johnson wrote 27 novels. Her first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, was published in 1935. Her last novel, A Bonfire, was published in the year of her death, 1981. Her themes centred on the moral responsibility of the individual in their personal and social relations. [8] Her first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, caused some
The Hanford Site occupies 586 square miles (1,518 km 2) – roughly equivalent to half the total area of Rhode Island – within Benton County, Washington. [1] [2] It is a desert environment receiving less than ten inches (250 mm) of annual precipitation, covered mostly by shrub-steppe vegetation.
The N-Reactor at the Hanford site along the Columbia River. Aerial Photo of the N-Reactor. Taken January 2013. Fuel element from N-Reactor. The N-Reactor was a water/graphite-moderated nuclear reactor constructed during the Cold War and operated by the U.S. government at the Hanford Site in Washington; it began production in 1963.
Benjamin Hanford was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1861, [1] the son of George Byington Hanford and Susan Elizabeth Martin Hanford. [2] Ben's mother died when he was in infancy. [ 3 ] Hanford's father later married Frances Jane Thompson, a woman from Bangor, Maine who as Hanford's step-mother imparted a taste for scholarship and culture upon him.
an excerpt of the book Your Best Year Yet! by Jinny S. Ditzler This document is a 35-page excerpt, including the Welcome chapter of the book and Part 1: The Principles of Best Year Yet – three hours to change your life First published by HarperCollins in 1994 and by Warner Books in 1998
Flenniken describes the book as a collection of poems about "growing up innocent in a contaminated land". [2] Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was home to the B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world. [3]
Tom Nolan of the Wall Street Journal writes: "Ms. Korelitz's book deftly intersperses chapters from "Crib," and it becomes a struggle for Jake to separate his own fiction from the real-life events he believes inspired Evan's tale. "The Plot" is wickedly funny and chillingly grim, and like the novel Evan hoped to create, it deserves to garner ...