Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West

Index

361 Index 100 Area, 31–34, 273 200 Area, 31, 34, 273 300 Area, 31, 32, 236, 273 400 Area, 240 700 Area, 31, 273 1100 Area, 31, 273. See also Richland Abbott, Carl, 120, Adams, Brock, 194, 195, 243–44 African Americans, 26, 27, 83–84, 125–30, 144, 145, 275, 276 agriculture. See farmers and farming American West, 7–8, 9, 10, 17, 77, 140, 197, 212–13; and Atomic Age, 266– 71; and “eastern interests,” 160; and economic development, 140–41, 214–15, 221; land uses in, 203–6, 243–44; and Richland identity, 95–102, 135; and technology, 101–3, 232, 264–65; and underdevelopment , 7, 206–7, 266–67; and U.S. nuclear weapons programs, 4, 247. See also frontier; Pacific Northwest; pioneers and pioneering anticommunism, 107, 113, 153, 159–60, 178 antinuclear movement, 67, 188, 190, 207, 235–36, 240, 243, 244, 247 Argonne National Laboratory, 238, 239 Arid Lands Ecology Reserve (ALE), 203, 250–51, 252, 255 Army Corps of Engineers, U.S., 16, 17, 22, 25, 147, 205, 211, 212–13, 253, 258–59. See also Manhattan Project Atlantic Richfield Hanford Company, 183, 184 Atomic Age, 212–13, 223, 266, 269 Atomic Cup hydroplane race, 132, 135 Atomic Energy Commission, U.S., 5, 41, 44–49, 55, 56–57, 61, 64–65, 142, 147, 153, 205, 227–28, 256; Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, 219–20, 221–22; and breeder reactors , 238–39; and economic diversification of Tri-Cities, 172–74, 175, 177, 179–83; as environmentalist at Hanford, 248–51, 256–57; and N reactor, 162–64, 165, 166; and race relations, 127–30; and Richland, 105–17, 149–50; and U.S. Congress, 149–50; and Wahluke Slope, 218–22 Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955, 116 Atomic Frontier Days (Richland celebration ), 101, 102 Autry, Gene, 264–65 B plant, 34, 47 B reactor, 30, 31, 32, 34–35, 91, 216–17, 273 Bailie, Tom, 138–39 Basalt Waste Isolation Project, 69, 194, 243 Battelle Memorial Institute, 182 Battelle-Pacific Northwest Laboratory, 182, 240, 250, 256 Ben Franklin Dam, 165, 202, 203, 210, 218, 249, 253, 254, 255, 259 Benton County, 148, 198 362 i n de X Black Rock Valley, 203, 209 Bloch, Edward J., 56 Boeing Company, 147, 152, 154, 178, 188 Bohr, Niels, 4 Bonneville Power Administration, U.S. (BPA), 66, 156, 157, 160, 164, 185, 211, 214, 218, 238 breeder reactors, 236, 238–42, 245 Bureau of Reclamation, U.S., 158, 219, 220–21, 222, 224, 236, 249–50 Bush, Vannevar, 103 C reactor, 42, 50 Cain, Harry P., 159 Chelyabinsk-65, Soviet Union, 43 Chernobyl (nuclear accident), 68, 71 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 101 Church, Gilbert, 18–19 Clagett, Fred, 104, 148 Clarke, Frederick, 41 class. See labor; Richland; unions; workforce clean-up mission, 72–73, 195–96, 201, 229, 244–45, 258, 268 Clinton, William J., 197, 260 Cold Creek Valley, 203, 209 Cold War, 42–46, 137–40, 154, 214; end of, 68, 69, 257. See also Soviet Union Columbia Basin, 7–8, 11–12, 87, 140– 41, 157–60, 205, 207, 208–11, 227, 228–29 Columbia Basin Commission, Washington state, 222, 223 Columbia Basin News (Pasco), 170, 214–15, 225 Columbia Basin Project, 10, 20–21, 158, 201–2, 207, 209–11, 213–15, 218, 220–21, 225, 234, 260, 269 Columbia Center shopping mall (Kennewick ), 131, 184 Columbia River, 18, 40, 58, 157, 216–17, 234, 249, 251–52, 255. See also Hanford Reach; wastes, in water Columbia River Conservation League, 253–56 Columbia Valley Authority (CVA), 141, 157–60, 165, 176 company towns, 77, 215, 265–66, 268– 69. See also Richland compartmentalization, 203–7, 254, 261 control and secondary zones. See Hanford Site D reactor, 31, 32, 34–35, 91–92, 273 Dean, Gordon, 63, 95, 150 democracy, 247, 248; and nuclear weapons , 138–40, 199–200, 212–13, 220 Department of Energy, U.S. (DOE), 65, 68–69, 135–36, 188, 195, 201, 243; and changing missions at Hanford, 8, 72, 196; and release of classified records, 70–71, 195, 245; and TriParty Agreement, 257–58 diversification, economic, 61, 157–58; during the 1950s and early 1960s, 156, 166–68, 221 230; during the 1960s and 1970s, 168, 174, 176–77, 182–87, 225–28, 230, 240, 242, 249, 256, 259; during the 1980s and 1990s, 243, 261–63; and Tri-City Herald, 170–72. See also Fast Flux Test Facility; N reactor...