Hanford: The Closed City and its Downwind Victims

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Research in Social Problems and Public Policy

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Title:	Hanford: The Closed City and its Downwind Victims
Author(s):	Michael R. Edelstein
Volume:	14 Editor(s): Michael R. Edelstein, Maria Tysiachniouk, Lyudmila V. Smirnova ISBN: 978-0-7623-1371-6 eISBN: 978-1-84950-460-7
Citation:	Michael R. Edelstein (2007), Hanford: The Closed City and its Downwind Victims, in Michael R. Edelstein, Maria Tysiachniouk, Lyudmila V. Smirnova (ed.) Cultures of Contamination (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Volume 14), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.253-303
DOI:	10.1016/S0196-1152(06)14012-0 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Extract:	In 1986 and 1987, just at the cusp of public disclosure of these releases, the author was part of a team assigned the task of calculating the Social Impacts of siting a High Level Nuclear Waste Repository at Hanford. Of particular significance to this volume, from within the vast American military nuclear program, the Hanford Reservation is the site most often compared to the Mayak facility in Chelyabinsk (see Dalton et al., 1999; Edelstein & Tysiachniouk, this volume; Marshall, 1990b; Mironova et al., this volume). Both were the principal plutonium production sites within their respective contenders in the Cold War. For this reason, a return to this 20-year old research offers a fascinating point of comparison to the Mayak chapters.