Tag: Hanford
3 article(s) found with this tag.
Tiny cracks, big effect Kenton Rod looked closely at the soil beneath Hanford Nuclear Reservation's 300 Area and found it has a way of holding on to uranium, slowing its release into the environment, including seeping into groundwater and the Columbia River. Seven decades after the first nuclear production facilities were sited at Hanford, we discover the cultural legacy. We sample from poetry, history, and art, as well as a WSU student’s master’s thesis.
Spring 2013
Categories: Engineering, Environmental studies
Tags: Hanford, Groundwater, Nuclear waste
The Atomic Landscape
Summer 2012
Categories: Washington state history, History, Poetry
Tags: Hanford, Manhattan Project, Nuclear reactors, World War II, Atomic bomb
Coyote
Summer 2012
—Pronunciation: \ kī–ō’–tē, chiefly Western kī’–ōt \After years away,
I met you again on the tongue
of an old friend from home. Kī’–ōt.Trotting through sagebrush. Wild
by any name. I’d moved to a green isle city
that pron...
Categories: Alumni, Poetry
Tags: Hanford, Eastern Washington, Identity