Not so long ago I read an excellent book, Plutopia [0], which went into detail about the development and management of Hanford. Alongside that story, it tells a

Not so long ago I read an excellent book, Plutopia [0], which went into detail about the development and management of Hanford. Alongside that story, it tells a parallel narrative about Ozersk -- a similarly polluted nuclear town in Russia. The book does an impressive job at building an intuition to the dangers of radioactive waste for non-technical readers. At the same time, it is not terribly uplifting to realize that environmental destruction was/is treated as an afterthought. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutopia