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Read All About It: Hanford

Join Columbia Riverkeeper live on Facebook or receive a recording in your inbox as we talk to three Hanford authors: Kate Brown, author of Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters, Trisha Pritikin, The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice, and Karen Dorn Steele, an environmental and investigative reporter. 

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The Authors
Kate Brown headshot
Kate Brown

In Plutopia, Brown traces the parallel histories of Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia, the first two cities established to support plutonium production in the United States and the Soviet Union. 

 

Trisha Pritikin headshot
Trisha Pritikin

The Hanford Plaintiffs introduces the stories of 24 personal injury plaintiffs in litigation filed by people injured by Hanford’s decades of secret offsite radiation releases. 

Karen Dorn
Karen Dorn Steele

The Hanford Plaintiff's is Forwarded by Karen Dorn Steele,  will also join the conversation. Dorn Steele’s reporting unmasked nuclear secrecy and won a series of national reporting awards for The Spokesman-Review, the daily newspaper in Spokane, Washington. 

 

Join us live on Facebook as we learn more about the history of Hanford through these two in-depth investigative novels. 
If you can’t join on Facebook or if you would like to share it, we will be recording the conversations and will send an email when it’s ready.