Atomic Geography : A Personal History of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation / / Melvin R. Adams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910862083003321
• Autore: Adams Melvin R. <1941->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Pullman, Washington : , : Washington State University Press, , [2016]; ©[2016]
• ISBN: 1-63682-042-5; 0-87422-341-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 140 pages) : : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
• Disciplina: 623.4/5119; B
• Soggetti: Radioactive waste sites - Cleanup; Radioactive pollution; Nuclear weapons plants - Waste disposal - Environmental aspects; Industrial safety; Hazardous waste site remediation; Groundwater - Pollution; Environmental engineers; Ecology; Radioactive waste sites - Cleanup - Washington (State) - Hanford Site; Radioactive pollution - Washington (State) - Hanford Site; Groundwater - Pollution - Washington (State) - Hanford Site; Hazardous waste site remediation - Washington (State) - Hanford Site; Nuclear weapons plants - Waste disposal - Environmental aspects - Washington (State) - Hanford Site; Environmental engineers - United States; History; Biographies.; Electronic books.; Washington (State) Hanford Site; United States; Hanford Site (Wash.) Safety measures; Hanford Site (Wash.) Environmental conditions; Hanford Site (Wash.) History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: What is Hanford? -- What is Hanford : a unique geography -- What is Hanford : a historical timeline -- An obscure, strange and fascinating place -- The paradoxes of Hanford -- Hanford : the personal challenge -- Hanford : the physical anomalies -- The atomic pond -- The PUREX railroad tunnels -- Z-9 Crib, poisoning plutonium and crawler robots -- Burial grounds -- Hanford : the cultural progression -- First fishing, then farming, then Hanford -- From plutonium to cleanup -- The street names of Richland -- The atomic man -- F house -- How a Japanese balloon shut Hanford down -- Hanford : the engineering challenge -- The nuclear priesthood and archaeological analogs -- The weeds -- Natural analogs : designing a water retaining barrier -- Thousands of wells -- Tumbleweeds -- Bird in a tank and data overload -- Pumping carbon tetrachloride -- The Beverly Railroad Bridge -- Glowing in the dark -- Tank waste controversy -- Hanford : the national park -- Elk and wild horses -- Rare plants/ new plants -- The Hanford Reach -- B reactor -- Hanford as a redemptive quest -- Hanford : the poetic response -- Glossary.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Perhaps the first environmental engineer at Hanford, Melvin R. Adams spent 24 years on its 586 square miles of desert terrain. His thoughtful vignettes recall challenges and sites he worked on or found personally intriguing. Adams helped determine the initial scope of the soil and solid waste cleanup. The Environmental Restoration and Disposal Facility today covers 107 acres and has a capacity of 18 million tons. His group also designed and tested a marked, maintenance-free disposal barrier. It uses natural materials that will remain stable for thousands of years. They expanded a network of groundwater monitoring wells to define contaminated plumes, assess treatment effectiveness, and provide relevant data to hydrologists. They also developed a pilot scale pump and treatment plant for use on a four-square-mile carbon tetrachloride plume. Adams shares his perspective on leaking high-level waste storage tanks, dosimeters, and Hanford's obsession with safety."

Recreating the American republic : rules of apportionment, constitutional change, and American political development, 1700-1870 / / Charles A. Kromkowski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910961176303321
• Autore: Kromkowski Charles A (Charles Aloysius), <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-107-13165-0; 1-280-43372-8; 0-511-32593-2; 1-139-14749-8; 0-511-17824-7; 0-511-06394-6; 0-511-05761-X; 0-511-50985-5; 0-511-07240-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxii, 451 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 320.973/09/033
• Soggetti: Constitutional history - United States; United States Politics and government To 1775; United States Politics and government 1775-1783; United States Politics and government 1783-1865
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The paradox of constitutional consent -- Constitutional change I: 1700-1781 -- Constitutional change II: 1781-1789 -- Constitutional change III: 1790-1870.
• Sommario/riassunto: Rules of apportionment are elements of social and political order. In social gatherings, families and governments they assume a variety of written and unwritten forms and in every order they determine not only how collective decisions are made but also how and why a particular constitutional order develops over time. Recreating the American Republic provides a far-reaching analysis of when, how and why these rules change and with what consequences. Recreating the American ; Republic reveals the import of these rules of apportionment by engaging the three most widely recognized and studied eras and events of American political history: the Colonial era and the American Revolution; the early national years and the 1787 Constitutional Convention; and the nineteenth century and the American Civil War. Recreating the American Republic systematically compares each seemingly familiar era and event - revealing new insights and a new metanarrative of American political development between 1700 and 1870.