In 2011, the National Law Review ran an insightful piece on the Hanford Litigation. My comment on the article is reprinted here: I am very appreciative of this insightful analysis by Ms Jenna Greene of the chronic Hanford litigation, and the impact of Price Anderson upon the the litigation. I was born in 1950 in… Read More »
Radiation Exposure Essays
Duck and Cover
As an adult, I suppose I would have noticed that Hanford was protected by antiaircraft guns, interceptor fighter aircraft, and, starting in 1954, four entire defense batteries of Nike supersonic missiles.[1] Maybe I would also have understood that I lived next to an atomic weapons installation
Insignificant and Invisible: The Human Toll of the Hanford Thyroid Disease Study
I was honored to be asked to contribute a chapter to the collected works within Tortured Science: Health Studies, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons in the United States, compiled and edited by Dianne Quigley, Amy Lowman, and Steve Wing, published 2012 by Baywood Publishing Company, Inc, Amityville, New York. I am very grateful that Baywood has allowed… Read More »
Fukushima – Living Alone in the Contamination Zoo
I found this story, translated beautifully and reported by VICE Japan , referenced in Mother Jones: The Most Radioactive Man on Earth Has the Kindest Heart . It’s been just over two years since the earthquake and tsunami that caused catastrophic failure in the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, releasing high levels of radiation onto surrounding… Read More »
Richland: The Joys of Childhood Downwind
My parents made me stay behind the glass of the front window, watching forlornly while my friends joyfully rode their trikes and bikes in the massive, magnificent, billowing clouds of DDT sprayed monthly out of the back of the Benton County Mosquito Abatement District truck. DDT was Safer As it turned out, the DDT fogbank… Read More »