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Why did a Truchas woman die with extraordinary amounts of plutonium in her body and why was she illegally autopsied? For this reporter, the answers hit close to home. Searchlight, by Alicia Inez Guzmán, December 20, 2023 The first reference to her comes, of all places, on an airplane. It’s the end of April and…
"We all live downriver from Hanford," is the message painted on the windows of the Patagonia store in Seattle s Belltown neighborhood. It is a reminder of the continuing danger created by the remaining toxic nuclear waste at the Hanford Site in Benton County. Advocates with the nonprofit Hanford Challenge painted the mural to remind people everyone will suffer if the waste seeps into the groundwater and into the Columbia River. .
New Mexico was ground zero for the first atom bomb explosion, but the "downwinder" farmers and ranchers living near the Trinity test site, and the Navajo miners who dug the uranium, have been shut out for fallout compensation.