The Sacrifice Zone: Hanford's Endless Assault on the Columbia River

Creator

• Hanford Action of Oregon
• Paul Koverstein, Hanford Action of Oregon

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Document Type

Article

Date

Fall 2004

Description

Printed in the Fall 2004 issue of the Cascadia Times.

Althea Halvorson was a young woman at the time of the world's first nuclear blast. Now 88, she finds it deplorable that the U.S. is at war in Iraq over a nuclear threat that wasn't real, yet has made little progress at removing a nuclear threat close to the Columbia River that is very real.

Situated next to the Columbia in Eastern Washington, the Hanford Nuclear Site is one of the world's most contaminated places and will be dangerous forever. Hanford produced the plutonium that leveled the city of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, killing hundreds of thousands of people.

Another nuclear bomb factory at Oak Ridge, Tenn., enriched the uranium that destroyed Hiroshima three days earlier. Today Nagasaki and Hiroshima are safe places to live, unlike Hanford, Oak Ridge and more than 100 other places across the country that contributed to the U.S. arsenal of 70,000 nuclear warheads.

This research was completed money allocated during Round 3 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.

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Hanford Action of Oregon

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pdf

Keywords

nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons testing, environment, non-governmental organizations, United States Department of Energy, tribal governments, environmental cleanup, radioactive fallout, radioactive waste

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Location

Portland, OR

Recommended Citation

Hanford Action of Oregon and Koverstein, Paul, "The Sacrifice Zone: Hanford's Endless Assault on the Columbia River" (2004). Hanford Action of Oregon. 1.
https://commons.clarku.edu/hanfordaction/1