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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Tác giả chính: Amundson, Michael A., 1965-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado ©2002.
Loạt:Mining the American West.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2tv5vc
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Tóm tắt: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
Mô tả vật lý:1 online resource (xxiv, 204 pages) : illustrations, maps
Định dạng:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Thư mục:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
số ISBN:0870817132
9780870817137
1280501197
9781280501197
661050119X
9786610501199
0870816624
9780870816628
9780870817656
0870817655