The Hanford Site in southeastern Washington state was built by the
Army Corps of Engineers and the DuPont Corporation during World War
II to produce plutonium for America's first atomic weapons. The
gigantic facility was immediately successful, producing and
delivering in less than two years the plutonium for the world's
initial atomic explosion and for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki that
effectively ended World War II. This first complete history of
Hanford was made possible by the recent declassification of tens of
thousands of formerly secret government documents relating to the
construction, operation, and maintenance of the site. It describes
the releases (planned and accidental) of radioactive and chemical
contaminants; their pathways through the environment; attempts to
correct problems under conditions of rapid, nearly chaotic change;
and the secrecy of government operations that made scientific
review of Hanford processes virtually impossible.
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