Hanford
History and Information about Releases of Radioactive Materials into the
Environment: 1944-1972
This publication provides a brief historical sketch and describes Hanford's releases into the air, water and soil. The last section discusses the uncertainties in the estimates of the amount of radioactive material released and whether the government continues to withhold important information.
Overview of Radiation and Known and Potential Health Effects
History of Hanford's radioactive releases and the potential health effects of radiation.
Health Care: Finding a Provider and Getting Health-Related Records
How to find and work with a health care provider; and information concerning medical and Hanford worker records.
Coping
with Uncertainty and Illness
Strategies and sources of further information.
Maps of the Exposure Area, Indian Nations Affected, and the HEDR Study Area.
Glossary
Gives you a brief definition of commonly used terms
within this site.
Monograph for Health Care Providers
A self-study monograph on the health effects of radiation and information concerning radioactive releases from the Hanford site: 1944-1972.
Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project.
Investigate the amount and types of radioactive materials Hanford released between 1944 and 1972, and how these materials may have moved through the environment and exposed people, and estimate the radiation doses people received.
Selected Bibliography
Selected Bibliography is a list of books and articles that may be found at your local library.
Selected Sites on the World Wide Web
Examples of some sites on the World Wide Web that may be of interest to you.
Hanford Victims
Hanford Downwinders Were Kept In The Dark!
The Cold War
I Thought We Won The Cold War?
A Simple Request
The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)
Links that relate to The Hanford Project
A Number Of Web Site Links and e-mail Addresses Which May Be Of Interest To Others, Like Myself, That Were Living Near Hanford During Those Years