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Cold War, Hot Mess
A hazmat-suit respirator on display at the Hanford REACH Interpretive Center.
After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.
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Issue: Fall 2021 / Volume 97/3
Published: September 23, 2021
Lois Parshley’s reporting has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper’s, the Atlantic, Granta, National Geographic, and Businessweek, among others. A former Knight-Wallace fellow and National Geographic explorer, her work has won numerous awards.
Sean McDermott is a freelance photographer based in Alaska. His work has been published in National Geographic, Scientific American, HuffPost, Undark, Men’s Journal, and Granta, among others.