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Research into health impacts has been hindered by the decades-long delay between these releases which began with the site\u2019s start-up in November 1944 and declassification of Hanford operational records disclosing these releases in 1986. Downwinders observed and prior analyses suggested an apparent excess in fetal and neonatal deaths during the 1940s and 1950s. Analysis of radiation released by Hanford, the possible cause of these deaths, has been hampered by data access and time. The few existing studies relied on uncertain, estimated exposure doses from the heavily criticized government-sponsored Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction project. Women and children, lower-socioeconomic status, non-white, and Indigenous communities are commonly overburdened by exposures to radioactive contamination and lack of subsequent care and study. 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