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 * Review recent controversies about the six leaking tanks at Hanford. Specifically, about whether the waste [|should be sent to the Waste Isolation Pilot Project] (WIPP), which some claim is illegal, as well as concerns about how the sequestration will affect the cleanup efforts (up to [|4,800 employees] may be fired or furloughed). This could involve both a review of recent media pieces and press releases, as well as the relevant laws (regulating what kind of waste can got to WIPP, for example).
 * Close reading of [|this document] [Final Hanford Comprehensive Land-Use Plan Environmental Impact Statement], which evaluates six alternative land-use approaches tied to different stakeholders/levels of government based on a number of criteria, including environmental, socioeconomic, and environmental justice.
 * Read Nuclear Culture: Living and Working in the World’s Largest Atomic Complex, which Guy kindly lent me.
 * Learn more about Foucault & ethics this might help!], and about the anthropology of ethics.