Project Green Run
In 1949, Project Green Run (at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state) deliberately released 8,000 curies of radioactive iodine-131 into the environment over a 2-day period. Some conservative estimates cite 5,000 curies. Teri Hein (Atomic Farmgirl: Growing Up Right in the Wrong Place, 2000, 2003) wrote … “… between 1944 and 1972 Hanford released…