Many early safety procedures and waste disposal practices were inadequate, resulting in the release of significant amounts of radioactive materials into the air and the Columbia River, resulting in higher rates of cancer in the surrounding area. Since then, the DOE began monitoring single-shell tanks monthly and double-shell tanks every three years.

Because — according to the three-cueing theory — readers can use other, more reliable cues to figure out what the words say. The Metallurgical Laboratory physicists worked on designing nuclear reactors ("piles") that could irradiate uranium and transmute it into plutonium. It was so hard to ever get them to slow down and sound a word out because they had had this experience of knowing that you predict what you read before you read it.Soon after the book was published, Adams was describing her findings to a group of teachers and state education officials in Sacramento, California. Groves noted in his memoirs that "We made certain that each member of the project thoroughly understood his part in the total effort; that, and nothing more. There were only seven black people in Richland in 1950; this increased to 189 by 1960, when they accounted for 1. The project required 386 miles (621 km) of roads, 158 miles (254 km) of railway, and four electrical substations.

The B and T Plants were shut down after it became operational in 1956, having processed 8,100 metric tons of fuel rods. It operated from 1956 to 1972, and again from 1983 to 1988, when it reprocessed spent fuel rods from the reactors, [148] and processed approximately 66,400 metric tons of uranium fuel rods. kg) of fish caught at Richland would have received an additional radiation dose of 1,300 millirems per year.The whole language movement of the late 20th century was perhaps the zenith of the anti-phonics argument. Longer-lived isotopes were not affected by this retention, and several terabecquerels entered the river every day.