RE: Hanford and the HTDS

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Thank you Jim for the county correction and the other clarifications.

I understand the downwind reasoning (no Sternglass statistics). If Okanogan 

and Ferry are "control counties" this makes sense  - and also explains why 

Grant and Douglas were excluded as they are roughly between Benton and 

Okanogan).



Best regards - personal reflections only,



Bjorn Cedervall    bcradsafers@hotmail.com

PS. I have a vague memory that someone mentioned much more than a thousand 

locals were moved from Hanford in the 1940:ies. This would not be good as a 

formal reference - it is just in one of my notebooks that I don't have 

available at this time of writing - someone told me this - probably at 

Hanford (in 1982).

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The Hanford Reservation is in the northeast corner of Benton County.  Adams, 

Franklin, and Walla Walla counties are across the Columbia River,

immediately to the northeast, east, and southeast of the reservation. They 

are the downwind counties. Yakima county is west of the reservation and 

upwind. Okanogan, Ferry, and Stevens counties are roughly 150-200 miles to 

the north and north-northeast of the reservation and represent something 

approximating control populations, with much lower exposures to the I-131 

releases. They are dry, mountainous terrain, while the other counties are 

semi-arid and mostly flat. If my memory serves, something less than a 

thousand people were given two weeks to leave their homes and land in and 

around the small towns of White Bluffs and Hanford.



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