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Plutonium and the Rio Grande : environmental change and contamination in the nuclear age / William L. Graf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graf, William L., 1947- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- Plutonium--Environmental aspects.
- Plutonium.
- Radioactive pollution of water--Rio Grande Watershed (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.).
- Radioactive pollution of water.
- Radioactive pollution of soils--Rio Grande Watershed (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.).
- Radioactive pollution of soils.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Workers at the Los Alomos National Laboratory dumped waste plutonium from the Manhattan Project and other nuclear weapons projects into canyons draining into the Rio Grande. This book studies the movement of the plutonium through the river system, and is illustrated with maps, diagrams and photographs. The analytic methods employed will serve as a model for application elsewhere.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1994.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher information.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780197560570
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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