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Downwinders were individuals and communities, in the United States, in the intermountain West between the Cascade and Rocky Mountain ranges primarily in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah but also in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho who were exposed to radioactive contamination or nuclear fallout from atmospheric or underground nuclear weapons testing, and nuclear accidents.
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.
A 1944 pamphlet providing new employees with a detailed map and lists all the amenities to be found in the Hanford area. A 1945 pictorial record on the construction of the Hanford Engineer Works " Hanford Trailer City and Environment ", a series of public domain photos selected from the Hanford Declassified Project.
The Hanford Site is the most polluted area in the US, though cleanup started decades ago.. Estimates say it will take decades more and up to $640 billion to finish the job. The site just received ...
Hanford was a small agricultural community in Benton County, Washington, United States. It and White Bluffs were depopulated in 1943 in order to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site. The town was located in what is now the "100F" sector of the site.
B Reactor also produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945, just weeks after the Trinity Test. Japan surrendered Aug. 15, 1945, ending World War II.
In May 2020, DOE awarded a 10 year, $13 billion contract to manage Hanford tank waste to a team headed by BWXT and Fluor with primary subcontractors Intera and DBD. It did not include the ...
Fluor Hanford, Inc. began the 300 Area Accelerated Closure Plan in 2000 when re-industrialization failed to grow as expected. [1] Staff were moved from the aging post-World War II era buildings (326, 329) to newly constructed buildings on the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) main campus. [2]