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050 0 0 _aKF228.H285 PRI
100 1 _aPritikin, Trisha T.
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Hanford plaintiffs :
_bvoices from the fight for atomic justice /
_ccreated by Trisha T. Pritikin ; with a foreword by Richard C. Eymann and Tom H. Foulds and an introduction by Karen Dorn Steele.
264 1 _bUniversity Press of Kansas,
_c2020
264 4 _c©2020
300 _axvi, 348 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe Forgotten Guinea Pigs -- Hanford and the Manhattan Project : Plaintiff 1: Charlotte Rae McCormick, Plaintiff 2: Marlene Campbell, Plaintiff 3: Jay Mullen, Plaintiff 4: Sally Albers Stearns, Plaintiff 5: Rance Jones -- The Early Cold War, 1945-1950 : Plaintiff 6: Lesley Frazier Thompson, Plaintiff 7: Susan Ward, Plaintiff 8: Bonnie Rae, Plaintiff 9: Connie Nelson, Plaintiff 10: June Stark Casey -- Chapter 4. The Cold War 1951 -- Poisoned Milk : Plaintiff 11: Michael Helland, Plaintiff 12: Dan S. -- Chapter 6. Hanford : Signs of Trouble Downwind : Plaintiff 13: Brenda Weaver, Plaintiff 14: Jamie Weaver, Plaintiff 15: Tom Bailie, Plaintiff 16: Mary Bailie Reeve -- NTS : Signs of Trouble Downwind -- Hanford: The Silent Holocaust : Plaintiff 17: Geneva Shroll, Plaintiff 18: Keith Lindaas, Plaintiff 19: Lois Foraker, Plaintiff 20: Marcy Lawless, Plaintiff 21: Jackie Harden -- Hanford Downwinders Turn to the Courts : Plaintiff 22: J. M., Plaintiff 23: Trisha Thompson Pritikin -- Reversal of Allen Bellwether Verdicts : The Catalyst for Change : Plaintiff 24: Judith Mayer -- Appendix: Citizen Letter to Dr. Dick Jackson, NCEH.
520 _a"For four decades, from its opening as a Manhattan Project outpost during World War, the Hanford nuclear facility in Washington State regularly released radiation into the air and water surrounding it, blanketing farms, towns, and the Columbia River. Residents - many of them families of Hanford workers - were repeatedly assured that facility posed no threat, despite rising rates of illness and death in both people and animals. Not until the 1980s, when documents related to nuclear testing were finally declassified, did the public learn that the government had known all along that Hanford was a danger to the people of the Pacific Northwest. Starting in 1991, thousands of downwinders filed personal injury claims against the contractors who operated Hanford, seeking recompense for their high rates of cancer, thyroid disease, and other issues. In The Hanford Plaintiffs, Trisha Pritikin - a Hanford downwinder, attorney, and named plaintiff - tells the story of Hanford, its downwinders, and their battle for justice. She gives historical context to both Hanford and the larger issue of American nuclear testing, drawing especially on the experiences of Nevada Test Site downwinders. She details In Re Hanford, the class action suit, and the multitude of uphill battles downwinders face in a legal system that protects the government on all fronts. But the core of the book, its greatest contribution, is the set of 24 oral histories from Hanford plaintiffs. Here is the personal cost of America's nuclear power, told in the words of those who struggled not just with illness and loss but also to be believed in the face of government insistence that nothing was wrong"--
610 2 0 _aHanford Works
_xTrials, litigation, etc.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bDepartment of Energy
_xTrials, litigation, etc.
650 0 _aToxic torts
_zWashington (State)
_zHanford Site.
650 0 _aRadioactive waste sites
_xLaw and legislation
_zWashington (State)
_zHanford Site.
650 0 _aRadiation victims
_xLegal status, laws, etc.
_zWashington (State)
_zHanford Site.
651 0 _aHanford Site (Wash.)
_xTrials, litigation, etc.
653 _aIn re Hanford Nuclear Reservation Litigation
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