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Hanford: The Cold War on the Columbia River
Hanford: The Cold War on the Columbia River
- The Creation of Site W. (The Hanford Engineering Works) and the Manhattan Project.
Video--Introduction to Hanford nuclear facility video, narrated by Dan Kevles. A brief look at the history of the Hanford nuclear complex and the high financial, environmental, and cultural cost of its operations in the mid 20th century. Exclusively uses archival photos.
Video - Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Map -- Energy
Research and Development Administration: Chronology of the Hanford Project (1975)
Image -- Old
Hanford Farmhouse (ca. 1943-46)
Image --
Hanford Site Construction Camp Located at the Former Hanford Townsite (ca. 1944).
Image -- R.
Johnson: Worker Housing at Hanford (ca. 1944)
Image -- R. Johnson:
Worker Housing at Hanford (ca. 1944)
Image -- R. Johnson:
Barbed Wire Fences Separated the Atomic Projects from the Surrounding Countryside
(1944).
Image -- Examples
of Motivational and Security Signs at the Hanford Site during the 1940s: Absenteeism,
War Bonds Advertisement, and Security Reminder (ca. 1940s)
Image -- Highlights
of Hanford: Is the Food Good? (ca. 1940s)
Image -- Highlights
of Hanford: Work for Victory (ca. 1940s)
Image -- Plant Workers
Image -- WAC Officer
Image -- Female
Workers Proceeding Through Security Gates After Showing Badge (1944-45)
Image -- Queen
Mary Interior
Image -- R.
Johnson: Picture of the 100 F Area plutonium-producing reactor (1944).
Image -- Hanford
plutonium being loaded into TNT at Los Alamos
Image -- News
Article Telling Workers at the Hanford Site What They Had Been Producing (ca.
August 1945)
Text -- Enrico
Fermi: Observations During the Explosion at Trinity on July 16, 1945 (July 1945)
Text -- The
Brookings Institution: The Costs of the Manhattan Project (1998)
II. Hanford during the Cold War.
Map -- Energy
Research and Development Administration: Hanford Area (1975).
Map -- Hanford
Site and Area
Image -- Grid
Pattern of 300 Area Looking West (1979).
Image -- President
John F. Kennedy at Ground Breaking of the Hanford Generating Plant at N Reactor,
October 1963 (1963).
Image -- Hanford
N Reactor, Hanford Site, Washington. (December 16, 1993).
Image -- Sabine
Hilding: Hotcell, Interior Fast Flux Test Facility (1999).
Image -- Sabine
Hilding: Inside Fast Flux Test Facility Reactor, Railroad Tracks (1999).
Image -- Sabine
Hilding: Entire Fast Flux Test Facility Reactor Complex (1999).
Image -- The
H Reactor at Hanford on the Columbia River (July 9, 1997).
Chart -- Department
of Energy: Employment at the Hanford Site, 1943-1959 (1997)
Chart -- Department
of Energy: Employment at the Hanford Site, 1960-1990 (1997).
Text -- Edward
Teller: Letter To Congressman Sterling Cole (July 23, 1953).
Table -- Department
of Energy: Major Contractors at the Hanford Site, 1943-1990 (1997).
Table -- Department
of Energy: Radiation Incidents, 1944-1957 (1957).
Text -- William
Clinton and Boris Yeltsin: Joint Statement of Principles For Management and
Disposition of Plutonium Designated as No Longer Required for Defense Purposes
(September 2, 1998).
Text -- Nuclear
Waste Policy Act of 1982 (1982).
III. The Environmental Problems at Hanford and the Public Response.
Image -- Department
of Energy: Massive Groundwater Contamination (ca. 2000)
Image -- R.
Johnson: Construction of Underground Liquid Waste Storage Tanks at the 300 C
Area (ca. 1943)
Image -- Hanford
Watch: K East and K West, Right Next to the Columbia River (ca. 1993).
Image -- Hanford
Watch: K West Building, 1993 (1993).
Image -- Doug
Riggs: The first Multi-Cannister Overpack (vertical tube) leaving the K-Basins.
Inside is spent nuclear reactor fuel which had been stored in the K Basins.
Image -- Hanford
Watch: K West: Highly Radioactive Cesium Canisters Stored Underwater (1994).
Image -- Tanks
Under Construction
Image -- Double-Shell
Tank Farm Under Construction
Image -- Inside
Tank Showing Liquid and Salt Cake.
Image -- Computer
Generated Graphic Showing Waste Leaking from Tanks Into the Ground ("Vadose
Zone") Below them. The Data for this Graphic was Gathered from Drilling Test
Wells Below the Tanks.
Image -- Darwin
Durek: Bonneville Dam Spillway (1998)
Image -- Darwin
Durek: Columbia River from Cape Horn Overlook (1998)
Image -- Darwin
Durek: Columbia River from Cape Horn Overlook (1998)
Image -- Peter
Bacon Hales: Billboard Along Restricted Roadway, Hanford Engineer Works Site
(1990).
Text -- The
Hanford Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (May 15, 1989)
IV. Native Americans in the Hanford Area.
Map -- Map of
the Nez Perce Trail
Map -- Department
of Energy: Map of Native American Groups in Washington: Cayuse, Palouse, Nez
Perce, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Yakama, and Wanapum.
Map -- Department
of Energy: Close-Up of Hanford Site Native American Tribes
Map -- Department
of Energy: The Hanford Site and its Surrounding Areas: Home to Cayuse or Sahaptian
(Shahaptian) speaking Indians
Image -- Aerial
View: Fish Hatcheries on the Columbia River
Image -- A Handful
of Salmon Hatchlings
Image -- Kim
Carlson: Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia River (June 1999)
Image -- Chief
Joesph Dam (January 1980)
Image -- Bob
Heims: Bonneville Lock & Dam (April 1990)
Text -- Columbia
River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission: A Short Chronology of Treaty Fishing on
the Columbia River (1996)
Image -- J.W.
Thompson: Yakima Reservation Boundary (ca. 1950s)
Text -- Yakima
Treaty of Camp Stevens, 1855 (Ratified March 8, 1859)
Text -- Nez
Perce Treaty (June 11, 1855)
Text -- J.C.
Bard: U.S. Department of Energy Ethnographic/Contact Period of the Hanford Site,
Washington (1997).
Text -- U.S.
Supreme Court: Tulee vs. State of Washington (1942)
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