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Author | : Leona Marshall Libby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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The youngest and only woman member of the original team of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project recounts the scientific, personal, and ethical problems encountered by those who built the first nuclear reactor.
Author | : Tom Zoellner |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780670020645 |
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A history of the powerful mineral element explores its role as a virtually limitless energy source, its controversial applications as a healing tool and weapon, and the ways in which its reputation has been used to promote war agendas in the middle east.
Author | : Sarah Alisabeth Fox |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803269498 |
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Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War. Sarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans. In chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.” With the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.
Author | : Doug Brugge |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780826337795 |
Download The Navajo People and Uranium Mining Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Based on statements given to the Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project, this revealing book assesses the effects of uranium mining on the reservation beginning in the 1940s.
Author | : Leona Marshall Libby (climatologue).) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 341 |
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Author | : Denise Kiernan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-03-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451617534 |
Download The Girls of Atomic City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.
Author | : Judy Pasternak |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2011-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416594833 |
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Tells the story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its legacy of sickness and government neglect, documenting one of the darker chapters in 20th century American history. --From publisher description.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
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Download Metal of Dishonor, Depleted Uranium Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The drastic health and environmental consequences of a new generation of radioactive weapons, Depleted Uranium (DU), currently being used in U.S.-waged wars are discussed in these essays. This new kind of nuclear war is examined alongside the effects on Vietnam and Gulf war veterans and the indigenous people on whose land these weapons are being tested. Among the issues covered are the collaborative military and media cover-up of DU, the government's denial of DU's toxic effects, uranium development on Native American land, nuclear testing on the Marshall Islands, and radioactive residue in the Middle East. Contributors include Ramsey Clark, Pat Broudy, and Helen Caldicott. Official government documents on DU and its effects and charts illustrating where DU is tested and stored in the United States are included for further examination.
Author | : Kristen Iversen |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2013-06-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307955656 |
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“An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community’s vain search for justice—soon to be a feature documentary Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and--unknown to those who lived there--tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets--both family and government. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats--best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities. Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book is both captivating and unnerving.
Author | : Darleane C Hoffman |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2000-01-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1783262443 |
Download Transuranium People, The: The Inside Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this highly interesting book, three pioneering investigators provide an account of the discovery and investigation of the nuclear and chemical properties of the twenty presently known transuranium elements. The neutron irradiation of uranium led to the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938 and then to the first transuranium element, neptunium (atomic number 93), in 1940. Plutonium (94) quickly followed and the next nine elements completed the actinide series by 1961. Investigation of the chemical properties of the actinides was followed more recently by chemical studies of the first three transactinides — rutherfordium (104), hahnium (105), and seaborgium (106). Recent discoveries have extended the known elements to 112./a