On the home front : the Cold War legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site / Michele Stenehjem Gerber ; with a new epilogue by the author.
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TextPublication details: Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (334 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, mapContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585257124
- 9780585257129
- Nuclear weapons plants -- Waste disposal -- Environmental aspects -- Washington (State) -- Hanford Site
- Hanford Site (Wash.)
- Hazardous waste site remediation -- Washington (State) -- Hanford Site
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Waste Management
- Hazardous waste site remediation
- Nuclear weapons plants -- Waste disposal -- Environmental aspects
- Washington (State) -- Hanford Site
- Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Engineering & Applied Sciences
- Environmental Engineering
- 363.72/89/0979751 21
- TD898.12.W2 G47 1997eb
"Bison Books"--Added title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-317) and index.
Beginnings: the land and the place -- Building the plants: nuts, bolts, and chaos -- "Tell 'em you're from Richland" : regional growth in the Columbia Basin -- Blowing in the wind: the airborne contaminants -- "Hail Columbia": the river-borne contaminants -- Laying waste to the soil: the groundwater contaminants -- Radiobiology: the learning curve -- Truth and rebirth.
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English.
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