Revolutionary Reads: A Social-Cultural History of Plutonium Production

This presentation will explore working and living near the Hanford Nuclear Site and Tri-Cities Area from a social-cultural and racial perspective. Hanford, one of the three sites of the Manhattan Project, is primarily an industrial site of plutonium manufacture and refining, and this presentation will draw links to other histories of industrial production and well as what makes Hanford unique - its "nuclerarity".  

Robert Franklin is the assistant director and archivist of the Hanford History Project, the director of the Hanford Oral History Project, a certified archivist, a published author, and an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Washington State University, Tri-Cities.

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You will need a computer, tablet or phone with a camera and microphone.

Revolutionary Reads is an annual community reads program with the goal of galvanizing the SW Washington community to read the same book, on a topic of revolutionary importance. Revolutionary is defined as “involving or causing a complete and dramatic change” and/or “radically new or innovative; outside or beyond established procedure, principles, etc.” 2023’s program will focus on the Hanford Site, located on the Columbia River in Benton County, WA. This program will explore the past, present, and future impacts the decommissioned nuclear production complex has on the people, places, and environment in Washington State. 

Free copies of the book Atomic Days: the Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America by Joshua Frank will be available at all FVRLibraries locations while supplies last.

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