KNOWLEDGE FOR THE GENERATIONS AHEAD
From Hanford to Hyperscale
Sovereignty, Nuclear Justice, AI Infrastructure and Washington's Next Energy Future
Indigenous Nuclear Justice
Relational research connecting distinct Indigenous experiences across uranium extraction, nuclear production, testing contamination, cleanup and survival.
Nuclear Justice Exchange
Research, oral histories, community knowledge and documentation emerging from Wanapum-Marshallese relationship building.
True Cost of Nuclear Infrastructure
Public investment, ratepayer risk, waste, decommisioning, fuel systems and generational obligations.
FOLLOW THE NUCLEAR STORY ACROSS PLACE
1943
Hanford Engineer Works
Federal acquisition and displacement
1940s - 1980s
Plutonium
Production
1945
Hiroshima
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Nagasaki
1946 - 1958
U.S. nuclear testing in Marshall Islands
WHAT COMES NEXT?
HISTORY IS STILL BEING WRITTEN.
Photo: The Hanford Site
Signing of the Tri-Party Agreement
Weapons production processes left solid and liquid wastes that posed a risk to the local environment, including the Columbia River.
THE NEXT ENERGY FUTURE NEEDS DIFFERENT RULES.
IJT’s emerging policy priorities include:
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Tribal sovereignty before siting
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early notification before irreversible commitments
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cumulative infrastructure analysis
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transparent public subsidies
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independent project-cost and risk analysis
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protection against automatic ratepayer exposure
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water accounting
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waste and decommissioning responsibility
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community benefits downstream of sovereignty—not instead of it
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technology-specific evidence rather than slogans
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intergenerational responsibility
Our current analysis specifically identifies public subsidy, economic risk, utility costs, water, waste economics, Tribal processes, and other traditional state powers as stronger Washington policy terrain than attempting to recreate federal nuclear-safety regulation.
JUSTICE MUST REACH THE BODY.
Nuclear history lives not only in policy and landscapes.
It lives in bodies.
Families.
Grief.
Cancer.
Displacement.
Food systems.
Mental health.
Relationships to homeland.
And questions communities sometimes carry for generations.
IJT’s nuclear justice work is committed to connecting environmental restoration with community health, cultural healing, memory, and access to care.
Our Wanapum–Marshallese exchange is part of that larger vision:
communities sharing what they know;
what they have survived;
what they still need;
and what healing could look like on their own terms.
The people making today’s infrastructure decisions will not be the people living longest with them.
That matters.
Nuclear materials, waste, contaminated landscapes, institutional obligations, and infrastructure decisions can outlast administrations, corporations, careers—even lifetimes.
Future generations are therefore not an abstract “stakeholder.”
They are part of the decision.
WHAT WILL OUR DESCENDANTS SAY WE DID WITH WHAT WE KNEW?
"We are not only descendants of nuclear history. We are ancestors of whatever comes next."
SOME TRUTHS NEED MORE THAN A POLICY BRIEF.
Artists have long helped communities hold histories that statistics cannot carry alone. IJT’s nuclear justice work creates space for visual art, film, poetry, performance, fashion, sound, oral history, installation, and place-based storytelling.
Art can hold:
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memory;
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grief;
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beauty;
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anger;
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survival;
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land;
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and futures that policy language cannot yet imagine.
Are you part of a Tribal Nation, nuclear-impacted community, health organization, research institution, environmental justice organization, or cultural organization?
THIS HISTORY IS STILL MOVING.
Help shape where it moves next.