The site of one nuclear power station in Washington State, is now “arguably, the most contaminated place on the entire planet,” and “a sprawling wasteland of radioactive and chemic sewage” that threatens to permanently poison the Columbia River.
, from Haymarket Books, takes us deep into the horrific clogged bowels of the failed technology that is nuclear power.
It is now, he says “a sprawling wasteland of radioactive and chemic sewage … the costliest environmental remediation project the world has ever seen and, arguably, the most contaminated place on the entire planet.” Such exposures have even included a deliberate experiment known as the “Green Run” in which Hanford operatives “purposely released dangerous amounts of radioactive iodine.”
Giant tanks are leaking. Plutonium and other apocalyptic substances are rapidly migrating toward the Columbia River, which could be permanently poisoned. But Hanford’s not alone. Frank also takes us to Chelyabinsk, the site of a Soviet era disaster, and to another wasteland around Kyshtym. Like the 1000-square-mile “dead zone” around Chernobyl, Hanford is full of areas where human life is perilous at best.
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