Word: richland
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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...
...plant official said in a 1948 memo that "one of these samples" taken in Richland "was at least 10 times hotter than average...
Inevitably, many hardy souls who work in the nuclear plants or whose communities rely heavily on the income they bring scoff at what they consider the alarmist fears being raised. Charges John Poynor, mayor of Richland, the closest town to the vast Hanford spread: "The types of people who are critical of Hanford and other nuclear reactors don't like anything except whales. I'd ship them all off to Alaska and let them rescue those three whales that are stuck...
...citizens, already worried by the October closing of two smaller plutonium plants at Hanford, are concerned about the prospective loss of jobs (Hanford employs 14,300 people in all). "Business all over the place is slowing down," says Lisa Klempke, 35, a bartender at the Big Y Tavern in Richland, 20 miles from Hanford. "People are out of money. They're thinking of moving away. I can't blame them...
Author Hugh Nissenson's fifth book and second novel purports to be the private diary of one Thomas Keene, 42, a widower who has settled in Richland County, Ohio, on the rim of the then unsettled wilderness. His first entry, on July 1, 1811, is an inventory of his credits and debits, including the $304 he owes the federal land office for the purchase of 160 acres of farmland. If he knew he were writing a story, Keene might decide to begin it with something more exciting than a ledger sheet. But he has no idea, of course, what shape...