Chess’s Reviews > Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters > Status Update

"500rads was good news to the researchers, as it meant it took a high dose of radiation to kill the salmon, and was much higher than the expected levels downstream from the plant"
bro,,, what about the people who eat the fish?? at TWO hundred the salmon looked FUCKED UP. no way this ends well, yet another classic instance of DuPont ruins everything.

every time they call native american languages "indian" i get so thrown off

ok so Mr. DuPont "doesn't believe in prosecuting rape" or even documenting it because "its a natural result of capitalism"... but he's pro partial restoration of culturally significant native american land without government oversight at the potential risk of national security? the only ideologically consistent thing about this man is his hatred of paperwork, apparently.

"you pack up and move us back to tennessee or ill take the kids and leave you! this place isn't fit for human beings to live in!"
reasonable and very understandable first reaction to Spokane, frankly.

oh good lord, the book on plutonium incidents brought up Dow Chemical less than 30 minutes in. never a good sign