Final 2014 Remedial Action Report, Project Chariot, Cape Thompson, Alaska

Why this matters

Project Chariot was a 1958 plan to blast a harbor out of the Alaskan coast with nuclear explosives. Iñupiat opposition and early environmental science stopped it, but researchers had already buried radioactive tracer material at the site. This report documents the cleanup decades later and links a famous Plowshare fight to its long tail.

Tags

• Project Chariot
• Plowshare
• Alaska
• Iñupiat

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The Nuclear Paper Trail

Plowshare in Alaska: a harbor never blasted, a site still cleaned.

Cite

DOE Office of Legacy Management. "Final 2014 Remedial Action Report, Project Chariot, Cape Thompson, Alaska." 1 March 2015. Released 1 March 2015. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1260243 (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0034).