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The price of nuclear power : uranium communities and environmental justice / Stephanie Malin.
LIBRA HD9698.U52 M3195 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malin, Stephanie A., 1981- author.
- Series:
- Nature, society, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear industry--United States.
- Nuclear industry.
- Nuclear industry--Information services.
- Government policy.
- Nuclear power plants--Environmental aspects.
- United States.
- Nuclear power plants--Environmental aspects--United States.
- Nuclear power plants.
- Nuclear industry--Information services--Government policy--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the paradox of uranium production in a neoliberal era
- Booms, busts, and bombs : uranium's economic and environmental justice history in the US
- Lethal legacies in uranium communities : left in the dust in Monticello, Utah
- A transnational corporation comes home : the Piñon Ridge uranium mill &sites of resistance and acceptance to renewed uranium production
- "Just hangin' on by a thread" : spatial isolation, persistent poverty, and social dislocation in uranium communities
- "Better regs" in an era of deregulation : neoliberalized narratives of uranium industry regulatory compliance
- Conclusions and solutions : social sustainability and localized energy justice
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813569796
- 0813569796
- 9780813569789
- 0813569788
- OCLC:
- 892304676
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