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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...
...Columbia Basin. The Energy Department proposes carving a cavern in the basalt rock some 3,000 ft. below the surface, and contends that the radioactivity could never seep into underground water sources or the river. Many job-conscious residents of the three nearby cities of Kennewick, Richland and Pasco were happy that their area remained under consideration. "We're better educated about nuclear energy here," said Dorothy Schoeppach, manager of the Pasco Chamber of Commerce. "We're not afraid...
...nearly 1 million gal. of radioactive water that had spilled into the plant's reactor and other buildings. The water was passed through filters to remove radioactive material, which was then loaded into stainless-steel casks and trucked away for testing at an Energy Department facility near Richland, Wash. In August, the company plans to lift the cover off the Unit 2 reactor and remove the destroyed core and the remaining fuel rods. Once it has done that, it will be able to complete the process of decontaminating the reactor building and either decommissioning the reactor or repairing...