Atomic Days

The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America

De: Joshua Frank

Narrado por: Will Tulin

Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real—an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl.

The EPA designated Hanford the most toxic place in America; it is also the most expensive environmental clean-up job the world has ever seen, with a $677 billion price tag that keeps growing. Huge underground tanks, well past their life expectancy and full of boiling radioactive gunk, are leaking, infecting groundwater supplies and threatening the Columbia River.

Whistleblowers are now speaking out, hoping their pleas can help bring attention to the dire situation at Hanford. Aside from a few feisty community groups and handful of Indigenous activists, there is very little public scrutiny of the clean-up process, which is managed by the Department of Energy and carried out by contractors with shoddy track records, like Bechtel. In the context of renewed support for atomic power as a means of combating climate change, Atomic Days provides a much-needed refutation of the myths of nuclear technology—from weapons to electricity—and shines a spotlight on the ravages of Hanford and its threat to communities, workers, and the global environment.

©2022 Joshua Frank (P)2023 Tantor

Harrowing and activating

The information is invaluable and I hope many others will take the time to read this book. It looks not only at concerning elements of the past, but also the successes of activists so far with the call to action to continue their legacy into the future. The narrator is excellent as well.

A Must Read (or Listen)!

Joshua Frank's Atomic Days is an essential read that details the egregious history and status of the Hanford site and the frighteningly mismanaged "clean up" of the nuclear sludge that the planet must endure for the next few hundred thousand years. Highly recommend!

Very Informative Story

This is a great and informative story. Government and Private Sector Cover Up. Making money but never providing a Solution.

this is more political than I thought it should be

let me start by saying, I do not follow the Democrats or Republicans lines. I vote for whoever I feel will be best. In a few minutes, you can tell the author is very Democrat. He says that the Pacific Northwest is full of dumb flag waving Republicans. Then he implied that it was wrong for the workers at Hanford to have pride in their job to help end WW2. He also goes into was nuclear bombing Japan needed to end the war. That was all in the opening. I stopped listening and going to get the book refunded

Garbage

10% info on Hanford that could be found on Wikipedia. 90% anti atomic energy propaganda.