Engineering Spaces for the Biological Effects of Fission

A chapter I wrote has just been published in Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds from University of Chicago Press. The volume’s tireless editors Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, and Christian C. Young put together a thoughtful book about the intersections between engineering and biology. My chapter, the seventh in the volume,…

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…