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Atomic Days

- The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
Af: Joshua Frank Engelsk Hardback

Atomic Days

- The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
Af: Joshua Frank Engelsk Hardback
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Once home to the United States''s largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real—an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl. 

The EPA designated Hanford the most toxic place in America; it is also the most expensive environmental clean-up job the world has ever seen, with a $677 billion price tag that keeps growing. Huge underground tanks, well past their life expectancy and full of boiling radioactive gunk, are leaking, infecting groundwater supplies and threatening the Columbia River.

Whistleblowers, worried that the worst is ahead, are now speaking out, begging to be heard and hoping their pleas help bring attention to the dire situation at Hanford. Aside from a few feisty community groups and handful of Indigenous activists, there is very little public scrutiny of the clean-up process, which is managed by the Department of Energy and carried out by contractors with shoddy track records, like Bechtel. In the context of renewed support for atomic power as a means of combating climate change, Atomic Days provides a much-needed refutation of the myths of nuclear technology—from weapons to electricity—and shines a spotlight on the ravages of Hanford and its threat to communities, workers and the global environment.

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Once home to the United States''s largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real—an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl. 

The EPA designated Hanford the most toxic place in America; it is also the most expensive environmental clean-up job the world has ever seen, with a $677 billion price tag that keeps growing. Huge underground tanks, well past their life expectancy and full of boiling radioactive gunk, are leaking, infecting groundwater supplies and threatening the Columbia River.

Whistleblowers, worried that the worst is ahead, are now speaking out, begging to be heard and hoping their pleas help bring attention to the dire situation at Hanford. Aside from a few feisty community groups and handful of Indigenous activists, there is very little public scrutiny of the clean-up process, which is managed by the Department of Energy and carried out by contractors with shoddy track records, like Bechtel. In the context of renewed support for atomic power as a means of combating climate change, Atomic Days provides a much-needed refutation of the myths of nuclear technology—from weapons to electricity—and shines a spotlight on the ravages of Hanford and its threat to communities, workers and the global environment.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 200
ISBN-13: 9781642598827
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1642598828
Kategori: Sundhed, sygdom og afhængighed: sociale aspekter
Udg. Dato: 1 nov 2022
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 139mm
Højde: 215mm
Forlag: Haymarket Books
Oplagsdato: 1 nov 2022
Forfatter(e): Joshua Frank
Forfatter(e) Joshua Frank

Kategori Sundhed, sygdom og afhængighed: sociale aspekter

ISBN-13 9781642598827

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 200

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 139mm

Højde 215mm

Udg. Dato 1 nov 2022

Oplagsdato 1 nov 2022

Forlag Haymarket Books