This tearsheet [1] from Popular Science, shows a "girl" with a Geiger counter, in her air-conditioned suit about to do her job at Hanford. The Hanford Atomic Site occupies 586 square miles in Benton County, in central Washington. It was established in 1943 during World War II as the Hanford Engineer Works, part of the Manhattan Project, to provide the plutonium necessary for the development of nuclear weapons. Plutonium from Hanford was used to build the first nuclear bomb that was tested near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and used to build Fat Man, the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Hanford is now a storage facility for nuclear waste. Hanford also contains the only operating nuclear plant in Washington state.
[1] a sheet or page cut from an actual printed magazine, journal, or newspaper, sent to the advertiser or contributor as proof of publication.
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