Items by Karen Dorn Steele — 4 items
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River stretch ignites a fight
Washington Sen. Patty Murray seeks to protect the stretch of the Columbia River that flows through the Hanford Nuclear Reservation - known as the Hanford Reach - as a wild and scenic river, but many locals object.
by Karen Dorn Steele, Oct 27, 1997 -
Radioactive waste from Hanford is seeping toward the Columbia
Two whistleblowers - safety auditor Casey Ruud and geophysicist John Brodeur - find that radioactive waste from some of the biggest, leaking storage tanks has already reached groundwater and is heading toward the Columbia River.
by Karen Dorn Steele, Sep 01, 1997 -
A cover-up over fallout?
The National Cancer Institute has been sitting on a study that says up to 72,000 people - many living far from nuclear bomb test sites in Nevada - may have been exposed to dangerous amounts of radiation in the 1950s.
by Karen Dorn Steele, Aug 18, 1997 -
Radiation experiments raise ethical questions
Controversy continues to surround Dr. C. Alvin Paulsen's experiments on Washington State Penitentiary inmates.
by Karen Dorn Steele, Apr 04, 1994
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