Yellowcake towns : uranium mining communities in the American West /
Michael Amundson presents a detailed analysis of the four mining communities at the hub of the twentieth-century uranium booms: Moab, Utah; Grants, New Mexico; Uravan, Colorado; and Jeffrey City, Wyoming. He follows the ups and downs of these "Yellowcake Towns" from uranium's origins...
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colo. :
University Press of Colorado,
©2002.
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| Series: | Mining the American West.
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| Summary: | Michael Amundson presents a detailed analysis of the four mining communities at the hub of the twentieth-century uranium booms: Moab, Utah; Grants, New Mexico; Uravan, Colorado; and Jeffrey City, Wyoming. He follows the ups and downs of these "Yellowcake Towns" from uranium's origins as the crucial element in atomic bombs and the 1950s boom to its use in nuclear power plants, the Three Mile Island accident, and the 1980s bust. Yellowcake Towns provides a look at the supply side of the Atomic Age and serves as an important contribution to the growing bibliography of atomic history |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America EBSCO eBook History Collection Books at JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 204 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0870817132 9780870817137 1280501197 9781280501197 661050119X 9786610501199 |
