America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town
August 4, 2022
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Episode 14 · August 4, 2022
America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town
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America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town
Summary
In this episode of Cited: What it means to live in a place where your home can give you cancer.
Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost overnight in the desert of southeastern Washington. Its employer is the federal government, and its product is plutonium.
The Hanford nuclear site was one of the Manhattan Project sites, and it made the plutonium for the bomb that devastated Nagasaki. The official history is one of scientific achievement, comfortable houses, and good-paying jobs. But it doesn’t include the story of what happened after the bomb was dropped -- neither in Japan, nor right there in Washington State. In part one of this Cited two-parter we tell the largely-forgotten story of the most toxic place in America. This episode was produced before Darts and Letters existed, when Cited Media was all about a documentary series called Cited.
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