The class, taught by history professor Ann Le Bar, gives students the opportunity to search through interview archives featuring the Hanford downwinders — the communities that had radioactive ...

This would make the local people very close by downwinders. The scheme is to shunt ... (of bloated Iraq War contracts and never-ending Hanford nuclear waste clean-up fame) is the contractor ...

Mike Lee, R-Utah, in calling for the reauthorization of the 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA, which provides compensation to so-called downwinders who lived in parts of Utah ...

“If you’ve got a Hanford T-shirt on and you’re on an airplane, or walking around pretty much any city in the world, people go, ‘Hanford!’ and one of the first things people say ...

Thousands of Hanford Downwinders, as they called themselves, filed lawsuits against the government. All the lawsuits have since been either dropped or settled. The Environmental Protection Agency ...

Experts have said the Hanford Site in Washington is an underground Chernobyl waiting to happen. Here's what the most toxic area in America is like.

Other downwinders received settlements from the government, with the last one paid out in 2015. Today, Hanford is undergoing a major environmental cleanup.

Increased rates of cancer, thyroid diseases, infertility, and lymphatic illness have been reported in people living near the Hanford Site, who have become known as "downwinders". A 2003 study of ...

Other sites associated with the production of fissile material, the core of nuclear weapons, rank high as the nation’s most toxic places, including Hanford, WA, Rocky Flats, CO, and Savannah ...

Recipients included “downwinders” who were eligible for $50,000 each if they lived in certain areas of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona during specified nuclear testing periods and developed a ...