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Tunnel Collapses at Hanford Nuclear Site

June 5, 2017 By Trisha Leave a Comment

A twenty-foot-long portion of a tunnel containing highly radioactive train cars and other equipment has collapsed at the Hanford Nuclear Site.  A state of emergency was declared by Department of Energy Hanford officials on May 9, 2017. The collapsed tunnel, referred to as “Tunnel #1,” was built in 1956 and contains train cars filled with… Read More »

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News, Spring, 2015

May 26, 2015 By Trisha Leave a Comment

On April 15, 2015, I presented a lecture at Whitman College, in Walla Walla Washington, titled “Narrating Hanford Downwinders: Particles on the Wall, an Exhibit with a Conscience. I was invited to lecture on the subject as a feature of the POTW exhibit on display in the university’s Maxey Museum. Fukushima Radiation: Will You Still Say… Read More »

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Why Focus on Fukushima?

January 6, 2014 By Trisha Leave a Comment

I have been asked by several colleagues to add material to this site on the Fukushima disaster. Many people, including me, see too many parallels between the current experiences of Fukushima downwinders and the lifelong struggles of the Hanford downwinders. It is so very important to learn from Hanford, to stop the tragic mistreatment of… Read More »

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Press Release: Kate Brown and Hanford Downwinders in Public Appearance

October 18, 2013 By Trisha 2 Comments

Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 17, 2013 Kate Brown and Hanford Downwinders in Public Appearance    RICHLAND, Wa—Kate Brown, author of Plutopia, will keynote a discussion of the impact of Cold War Era Hanford radiation discharges on people living “Downwind” of the bomb-building facilities.  Also speaking are three Downwinders who have become prominent advocates… Read More »

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