Green Run
The Green Run is a secret experiment from the beginning in December 1949 at the Hanford Site in the US state of Washington , that the release of a large amount of radioactivity was.
During the Green Run, 200 to 440 TBq of iodine -131 and significantly larger amounts of xenon -133 were deliberately released. It should be clarified whether reconnaissance aircraft of the United States Air Force can detect corresponding releases by an opponent in time, before advancing own armed forces would be endangered.
The experiment was only made known to the public in 1986. Many details remained secret. Radiation protection expert Carl C. Gamertsfelder made public that he had advised against the experiment because of the external risks of the release. However, this was not taken into account by those responsible. The media later reported on complaints about increased cancer mortality in humans and an increase in malformations, especially in animals in the region. Impact investigations were conducted up to 150 miles from Hanford Site.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Release of Radioactive Materials from Hanford: 1944–1972 ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Richard L Miller: Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing . Two Sixty Press, The Woodlands, Texas 1991, ISBN 0-02-921620-6 , p. 71. ( Google Books )
- ↑ Andrew Goliszek: In The Name of Science . St. Martin's Press, New York 2003, ISBN 978-0-312-30356-3 . pp. 130-131.
- ↑ Marc Pitzke: US radiation ruins Hanford: America's atomic time bomb. Spiegel Online , March 22, 2011, archived from the original on January 3, 2015 ; accessed on January 16, 2019 .
