Word: hanford
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Records of an October, 1948 meeting of an AEC advisory committee indicated that enough was known then about releases of radiation at the Hanford plutonium plant near Richland, Washington, to raise concerns about workers' health. Yet it was decided at that meeting not to recommend closing Hanford temporarily while action was taken to stop the release of plutonium particles into...
...report deals almost entirely with worker exposure to airborne plutonium, but does note that significant quantities of the radioactive element were measured away from the Hanford plant...
...documents uncovered by the Glenn committee indicated that a major concern at the Hanford facility was the release of huge numbers of plutonium particles. The problem, dating at least to 1947, was traced to corroded fan duct work in the stacks of two chemical separation plants...
...March 1948 report by Dr. Herbert M. Parker, director of the Hanford health instruments department of General Electric Co., which ran the facility for the government, said an average of about 7.4 billion particles was being released from the two plants each month...
...Workers used illegal drugs at the most sensitive facilities: Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos and Hanford...