Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West - Couverture souple

Amundson, Michael A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0870817655 ISBN 13 : 9780870817656

Editeur : University Press of Colorado, 2004

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael A. Amundson is a professor of history at Northern Arizona University, the author of Yellowcake Towns, and the co-editor of Atomic Culture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Colorado
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0870817655
• ISBN 13: 9780870817656
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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