8,000 Curies of Iodine-131
Atom’s Blog In 1949, Project Green Run (at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state) deliberately released 8,000 curies of radioactive iodine-131 into the environment over a 2-day period. (Some conservative estimates cite 5,000 curies.) According to Teri Hein, Atomic Farmgirl: Growing Up Right in the Wrong Place, 2000, 2003 … “… between 1944 and…