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Hanford: The Cold War on the Columbia River

Hanford: The Cold War on the Columbia River

  1. 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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