Happenings
- POTW exhibit at WSU through April 5, 2013
- POTW exhibit in Portland May 3 - June 14, 2013
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By the end of 1945, Hanford had produced 560,000 curies of plutonium. One curie is equal to 37 billion radioactive atoms in a given second in a test area. A "batch" of plutonium like what was sent to Los Alamos, is so dense, and contains such tremendous mass that it is extremely heavy. The amount of radiation present in a curie of radiation is too much for a human body to withstand. As Robley Evans found out at MIT, the dose estimate that was the limit for safety was only 0.1 curie of radiation in the 1940s.
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