On October 7, I read this paper “How Hanford’s Environmental Scientists Recreated Nature in the most Polluted Place in the US.” This was my final project for the Resident Scholar Program at OSU Library Special Collections and Archives Research Center. Many thanks to the folks at SCARC for this great opportunity. Also thanks to Robert Peckyno…
Category: Hanford Nuclear Site
Hanford in the Press
It’s nice to see Hanford make the international news, even if it is over the tortuous cleanup process. In this June 2014 piece for the BBC News Magazine, Taylor Kate Brown does a good job of telling Hanford’s story in a nutshell. She also makes a nice mention of Dr. Kate Brown’s thoroughly researched new book Plutopia, a comparative…
Hanford Reach National Monument
At the March, 2014, meeting of the Columbia History of Science Group in Friday Harbor, I gave a talk entitled: “Hanford Reach: Ironic Preservation or the Same Old Mission.” In the talk I discussed the history of the areas at the Hanford Nuclear Site that have become Hanford Reach National Monument. Hanford is unique among…
Joshua McGuffie's History of Science Site 