{"id":640,"date":"2009-06-04T09:06:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/06\/taryn_simon_hanfords_poisoned\/"},"modified":"2009-06-04T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:06:31","slug":"taryn_simon_hanfords_poisoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/06\/taryn_simon_hanfords_poisoned.html","title":{"rendered":"Taryn Simon: Hanford&#8217;s poisoned grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarynsimon.com\/#\">Taryn Simon<\/a>, photo and text, from her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Taryn-Simon-American-Hidden-Unfamiliar\/dp\/3865213804\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/104-7685956-3352727?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1173637031&amp;sr=8-1\"><i>American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar<\/i><\/a>: contaminated ground in watery blue light. Always nice to see how the Evergreen State strikes artists from elsewhere. (Bio from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagosian.com\/artists\/taryn-simon\/\">Gagosian.)<br \/><\/a><br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/tarynsimonnuclearwaste-7452.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/tarynsimonnuclearwaste-7452.html','popup','width=500,height=387,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/tarynsimonnuclearwaste-thumb-350x270-7452.jpg\" alt=\"tarynsimonnuclearwaste.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"350\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Nuclear Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility Cherenkov Radiation<br \/>\nHanford Site, U.S. Department of Energy<br \/>\nSoutheastern Washington State<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Submerged<br \/>\nin a pool of water at Hanford Site are 1,936 stainless-steel<br \/>\nnuclear-waste capsules containing cesium and strontium. Combined, they<br \/>\ncontain over 120 million curies of radioactivity. <b>It is estimated to be the most curies under one roof in the United States<\/b>.<br \/>\nThe blue glow is created by the Cherenkov Effect which describes the<br \/>\nelectromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle, giving off<br \/>\nenergy, moves faster than light through a transparent medium. The<br \/>\ntemperatures of the capsules are as high as 330 degrees Fahrenheit. The<br \/>\npool of water serves as a shield against radiation; a human standing<br \/>\none foot from an unshielded capsule would receive a lethal dose of<br \/>\nradiation in less than 10 seconds. <b>Hanford is among the most contaminated sites in the United States<\/b>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taryn Simon, photo and text, from her American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar: contaminated ground in watery blue light. Always nice to see how the Evergreen State strikes artists from elsewhere. (Bio from Gagosian.)Nuclear Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility Cherenkov Radiation Hanford Site, U.S. Department of Energy Southeastern Washington State. Submerged in a pool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}