Uranium Frenzy

Name: Uranium Frenzy
Brand: Utah State University Press
SKU: 9780874214321
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Saga of the Nuclear West

Szerző: Raye Carleson Ringholz

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Utah State University Press

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Now expanded to include the story of nuclear testing and its consequences, Uranium Frenzy has become...

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Szerző

Raye Carleson Ringholz

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2002

oldal

360

EAN

9780874214321

ISBN

9780874214321

Enbook ID

10049544

Kiadó

Utah State University Press

Súly

595

Méretek

152 x 229 x 23

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Now expanded to include the story of nuclear testing and its consequences, Uranium Frenzy has become the classic account of the uranium rush that gripped the Colorado Plateau region in the 1950s. Instigated by the U.S. government's need for uranium to fuel its growing atomic weapons program, stimulated by Charlie Steen's lucrative Mi Vida strike in 1952, manned by rookie prospectors from all walks of life, and driven to a fever pitch by penny stock promotions, the boom created a colorful era in the Four Corners region and Salt Lake City (where the stock frenzy was centered) but ultimately went bust. The thrill of those exciting times and the good fortune of some of the miners were countered by the darker aspects of uranium and its uses. Miners were not well informed regarding the dangers of radioactive decay products. Neither the government nor anyone else expended much effort educating them or protecting their health and safety. The effects of exposure to radiation in poorly ventilated mines appeared over time.The uranium boom is only part of the larger story of atomic weapons testing and its impact in the western United States. Nuclear explosions at the Nevada Test Site not only spurred uranium mining, they also had a disastrous impact on many Americans: downwinders in the eastward path of radiation clouds, military observers and guinea pigs in exposed positions, and Navajo and other uranium mill workers all became victims, as deaths from cancer and other radiation-caused diseases reached much higher than normal rates among them. Tons of radioactive waste left by mines, mills, and the nuclear industry and how to dispose of them are other nagging legacies of the nuclear era. Recentdecades have brought multiple attempts by victims to obtain compensation from the federal government and other legal battles over disposal of nuclear waste. When courts refused to grant relief to downwinders and others, Congress eventually interceded and legislated compensa

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