Yellowcake towns : uranium mining communities in the American West / Michael A. Amundson
- Author
- Amundson, Michael A., 1965-
- Published
- Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2002]
- Copyright Date
- ©2002
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 204 pages) : illustrations, maps
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- 1. From weed to weapon -- 2. To stimulate production and in the interest of security -- 3. Uranium company towns in the American West -- 4. The uranium capital of the world I: Moab -- 5. The uranium capital of the world II: Grants -- 6. Allocation, protectionism, and subsistence -- 7. Creatures of Uncle Sam -- 8. The commercial boom and bust, 1970-1988 -- 9. Yellowcake towns during the commercial boom and bust, 1970-1988.
- 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
- Report Numbers
- HED13.2/YE3/2002
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0870817132 (electronic bk.)
9780870817137 (electronic bk.)
1280501197
9781280501197
661050119X
9786610501199
0870816624
9780870816628
9780870817656
0870817655 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
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