Tag Archives: Taryn Simon

TARYN SIMON AT TED

It was a great pleasure to hear Taryn Simon´s talk live at TED, a couple of months ago; I have admired her work for quite some time. As the TED website says: With An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, Taryn Simon goes on the hunt for America’s dirty secrets. Gaining entrance to places [...]

TARYN SIMON: AN AMERICAN INDEX OF THE HIDDEN AND UNFAMILIAR

Nuclear Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility Cherenkov Radiation Hanford Site, U.S. Department of Energy Southeastern Washington State Submerged in a pool of water at Hanford Site are 1,936 stainless-steel nuclear-waste capsules containing cesium and strontium. Combined, they contain over 120 million curies of radioactivity. It is estimated to be the most curies under one roof [...]