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Cindy: Very simple question to start with, which is to tell me your name and to spell it. Janet:   My name is Janet Lynn McCardell, and it’s J-a-n-e-t L-y-n-n M-c-C-a-r-d-e-l-l. Cindy: Great. And, you should look at me. Janet:   Okay. Cindy: Don’t worry about what, don’t look at the camera. Janet:   All righty. Cindy: What […]

[Many thanks to Jonathan Sheline for donating this recording to the Atomic Heritage Foundation.] Jonathan Sheline: This is February 6, 2009. I am interviewing Dad about his early life. Dad, tell me where you were born and what you remember about your first few homes growing up. Raymond Sheline: I’m not sure if I was […]

Trisha Pritikin: We are in Lynnwood, Washington. Karen, can you spell your name and say your name, please? Karen Dorn Steele: Yeah. So, my name’s Karen Dorn Steele. K-a-r-e-n D-o-r-n S-t-e-e-l-e. Pritikin: Okay. I’d like to start with having you tell us, please, about your early life overseas growing up as the child of a […]

Karen Dorn Steele is a journalist. As a reporter for the Spokesman Review, she broke the story about the Green Run test, in which the U.S. government released radioactive gases in 1949 over areas surrounding the Hanford Site. Subsequently, she covered the Hanford Downwinder Litigation, in which residents living around the Hanford Site from the […]

John Price is an environmental lawyer who has been working on radioactive waste cleanup projects for more than 35 years. Currently, he is the Tri-Party Agreement Section Manager for the Washington Department of Ecology Nuclear Waste Program. In this interview, he discusses the Tri-Party Agreement and the role it plays in ensuring the cleanup of Hanford site. He […]

Cindy Kelly: I am Cindy Kelly, Atomic Heritage Foundation, in Washington, DC. It is June 27, 2018, and I have with me Glenn Schweitzer. My first question is to ask him to please say and spell his name. Glenn Schweitzer: I am Glenn Schweitzer, G-l-e-n-n S-c-h-w-e-i-t-z-e-r. Kelly: Perfect. Schweitzer: No errors. Kelly: He is doing […]

Cindy Kelly: Okay. I’m Cindy Kelly. I’m in Richland, Washington, and it’s Monday, September 10, 2018. I have with me Keith Klein, and my first question for him is to say his name and spell it. Keith Klein: Keith Klein, K-l-e-i-n. Kelly:  Terrific. Klein:  I passed, huh? Kelly:  Good job. Any rate, I’ve known Keith […]

Cynthia Kelly: I’m Cindy Kelly. It is September 11, 2018. I have with me. Dennis Faulk. And my first question is to please say your name and spell it. Dennis Faulk: Dennis Faulk, D-E-N-N-I-S F-A-U-L-K. Kelly: Terrific.  Kelly: You had an illustrious career with the Environmental Protection Agency.  Faulk: It was a great place to […]

Cindy Kelly: I’m Cindy Kelly. It is September 11, 2018, and I have with me John Fox. I’d like him to start by saying his full name and spelling it. John Fox: All right. My full name is John Fox. J-o-h-n F-o-x. I’ve always been grateful that I had a short name. Kelly:  John, I […]

Cynthia Kelly: It is Wednesday, September 12, 2018. I’m Cindy Kelly, and I have with me Tom Carpenter. I would first like him to tell us his full name, and spell it.   Tom Carpenter: Okay. It’s Thomas Everett Carpenter, and it’s T-H-O-M-A-S and then Carpenter, C-A-R-P-E-N-T-E-R. Kelly: So if you can tell us where and when you […]