RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The Energy Department has recently consolidated radiation-exposure research in a program operated by the Washington State University College of Pharmacy at Richland.
The U.S. Transuranium and Uranium Registries hold data archives and tissue samples for research into how radiation affects the human body.
The Tri-City Herald reports rows of freezers hold samples. They include tissue from former Hanford weapons workers and from women who painted radium on glow-in-the-dark watch dials in the 1920s.
The program also has the donated body of Harold McCluskey, who survived a 1976 explosion at Hanford’s Plutonium Finish Plant.
