In June I went out to the Hanford Site in #Washington---often called the most contaminated place in the Western Hemisphere. It’s also Umatilla, Yakama, Nez Perce and Wanapum ancestral lands.
This site was part of the secretive Manhattan Project during WWII and the Cold War. The world’s first industrial-scale nuclear reactor, called the B Reactor, still stands here. The B Reactor produced the plutonium that went in the bomb code named “Fat Man,” which the US dropped unnecessarily on Nagasaki.