Cover of Amundson Michael A. Amundson: Yellowcake Towns

Amundson Michael A. Amundson Yellowcake Towns

Uranium Mining Communities in the American West

Price for Eshop: 702 Kč (€ 28.1)

VAT 0% included

New

E-book delivered electronically online

E-Book information

University Press of Colorado

2004

PDF
How do I buy e-book?

232

978-0-87081-713-7

0-87081-713-2

Annotation

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.

Ask question

You can ask us about this book and we'll send an answer to your e-mail.