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 Experts shape our world. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. In every big story, you’ll find one; you’ll find a researcher, scientist, engineer, planner, policy wonk, data nerd, bureaucrat, regulator, intellectual, or pseudointellectual. Their ideas are often opaque, unrecognized, and difficult to understand. Some of them like it that way. On Cited, we reveal their hidden stories.Cited Media Productions Ltd. Ciencia Ciencias Sociales
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  • #9: America’s Chernobyl (2 of 2)

    #9: America’s Chernobyl (2 of 2)
    Aug 8 2020

    Hanford is the most-polluted place in America. On our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant’s largely-forgotten history–how it poisoned the people living downwind. On our season finale: a nuclear safety auditor tries to get it shut down, the …
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    57 m
  • #8: America’s Chernobyl (1 of 2)

    #8: America’s Chernobyl (1 of 2)
    Jul 30 2020
    Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost overnight in the desert of South Eastern Washington. Its employer is the federal government, and its product is plutonium. The Hanford nuclear site was one of the Manhattan Project sites, and it made the plutonium for the bomb that devastated Nagasaki. Here, the official history is one of scientific achievement, comfortable houses, and good-paying jobs. But it doesn’t include the story of what happened after the bomb was dropped — neither in Japan, nor right there in Washington State. On part one of our two-part season finale, we tell the largely-forgotten story of the most toxic place in America.
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    51 m
  • Secondary Symptoms #8: “Return to Normalcy”

    Secondary Symptoms #8: “Return to Normalcy”
    Jul 27 2020

    The phrase “return to normalcy” has been thrown around a lot lately. It’s actually a phrase that was popularized in 1920, in the wake of the WW1 and the Spanish Flu. But, as with the Spanish Flu, “returning to normalcy” …
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    1 h y 16 m
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