Category: Health Investigations
A Little History Lesson about Toxic Releases and the Oak Ridge Reservation
To commemorate the publication of ATSDR’s final report on the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee, we are posting this story about the history of the site and about two decades of ATSDR community work. The Manhattan Project Comes to Tennessee In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The Read More >
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ATSDR saves Super Bowl party in an Ohio community
“The stench was so bad that when I would bake a turkey in my kitchen, the only thing you could smell was the dump,” said Roger Pound. Now, thanks to an Agency of Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) intervention, Mr. Pound can once again smell the mouth-watering aromas coming from his kitchen. Mr. Pound Read More >
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