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Author : Wilbert Leland Dare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book Uranium Mining on the Colorado Plateau written by Wilbert Leland Dare and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raye Ringholz
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0874214734
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Uranium Frenzy written by Raye Ringholz and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s need for uranium ore in the 1950s, the frenzied search, and the aftermath. Now expanded to include the story of nuclear testing and its consequences, UraniumFrenzy 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. Recent decades 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 compensation for a limited number of victims able to meet strict criteria, but did not adequately fund the program. Recently, Congress attempted to fix this shortfall, but in the meantime many downwinders and others holding compensation IOUs had died. Congressional and other efforts to dispose of waste have lately focused on Nevada and Utah, two states all too familiar with nuclear issues and reluctant to take on further radioactive burdens. “In a perceptive and touching narrative, Ringholz (The Wilderness Handbook) recalls that the Federal government in the early 1950s subsidized uranium mining for the coming atomic age. . . . Ringholz intrigues the reader with an expert blending of science, adventure, industry mania, finance, human triumph and despair and shameful official neglect.” —Publishers Weekly “The frenzied search for a reliable domestic source of uranium ore needed by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in the 1950s is the subject of Ringholz's breezy narrative, which is populated with colorful characters. . . . This is good popular reading for general collections in public libraries.” —Library Journal
Author : Raye Carleson Ringholz
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393026443
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book Uranium Frenzy written by Raye Carleson Ringholz and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1989 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of uranium mining in America, following the efforts of ordinary people as they took part in the initial boom and the bust that followed
Author : Alfred T. Miesch
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Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Distribution of Elements in Colorado Plateau Uranium Deposits written by Alfred T. Miesch and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared partly on behalf of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. A regional study with special reference to the Frenchy Incline deposit, San Miguel County, Colorado.
Author : John Walter Gruner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mineral Associations in the Uranium Deposits of the Colorado Plateau and Adjacent Regions written by John Walter Gruner and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book Impacts of Past Uranium Mining Practices written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Uranium-mining Operations of the Utex Exploration Co. in the Big Indian District, San Juan County, Utah written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George William Bain
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Uranium Deposits in Southwestern Colorado Plateau written by George William Bain and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen L. Cannon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book Description of Indicator Plants and Methods of Botanical Prospecting for Uranium Deposits on the Colorado Plateau written by Helen L. Cannon and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Research, Development, and Radiation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Radiation Standards for Uranium Mining written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Research, Development, and Radiation and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses effectiveness of uranium mine radiation safety standards, and Federal Radiation Council efforts to establish official radiation exposure safety standards for uranium miners. Includes Resource Management Corp. report UR-042 "Control of Radiation Exposure in Uranium Mines: A Cost and Economic Analysis," Nov. 4, 1968 (p. 223-299).
