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Atomic Geography : A Personal History of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation /
"Perhaps the first environmental engineer at Hanford, Melvin R. Adams spent 24 years on its 586 square miles of desert terrain. His thoughtful vignettes recall challenges and sites he worked on or found personally intriguing. Adams helped determine the initial scope of the soil and solid waste...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pullman, Washington :
Washington State University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What is Hanford?
- What is Hanford : a unique geography
- What is Hanford : a historical timeline
- An obscure, strange and fascinating place
- The paradoxes of Hanford
- Hanford : the personal challenge
- Hanford : the physical anomalies
- The atomic pond
- The PUREX railroad tunnels
- Z-9 Crib, poisoning plutonium and crawler robots
- Burial grounds
- Hanford : the cultural progression
- First fishing, then farming, then Hanford
- From plutonium to cleanup
- The street names of Richland
- The atomic man
- F house
- How a Japanese balloon shut Hanford down
- Hanford : the engineering challenge
- The nuclear priesthood and archaeological analogs
- The weeds
- Natural analogs : designing a water retaining barrier
- Thousands of wells
- Tumbleweeds
- Bird in a tank and data overload
- Pumping carbon tetrachloride
- The Beverly Railroad Bridge
- Glowing in the dark
- Tank waste controversy
- Hanford : the national park
- Elk and wild horses
- Rare plants/ new plants
- The Hanford Reach
- B reactor
- Hanford as a redemptive quest
- Hanford : the poetic response
- Glossary.