HISTORY 224 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Hanford Reach, Radiogenic Nuclide, Nuclear Technology
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Wild and scenic wasteland: conservation politics in the nuclear wilderness shannon cram. Ridge, tennessee; richland, washington; los alamos, new mexico; aiken, south. Carolina; amarillo, texas; idaho falls, idaho; rocky flats, colorado; and hundreds of other smaller sites. However, this vast industrial infrastructure was never designed to stop making nuclear weapons. In 1995, the national defense authorization act required that the department of. Energy provide a detailed analysis of weapons-based waste and contamination. Advances in nuclear technology facilitate a return to edenic nature, painting science as an agent of both progress and purification and allowing narratives of production and erasure to entwine. Ultimately, by naturalizing nuclear production as cyclical expanding and retracting, moving forward while forever returning to itself the department of. Energy not only renders remediation attainable, but inevitable; as certain as the passage of time: weapons production not only saved american citizens from soviet attack, but it also rescued critical habitats from the ravages of development.
