Full body burden : growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats / Kristen Iversen
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Crown Publishers , c2012Description: 400 p. : illus. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780307955630
- Iversen, Kristen
- Rocky Flat Plant (U.S.) -- -Environmental aspects
- Rocky Flats Plant (U.S.) -- -History
- Rocky Flats Plant (U.S.) -- -Health aspects
- Nuclear weapons plants -- -Health aspects -- -Colorado
- Plutonium
- Radioactive waste sites -- -Cleanup -- -Colorado
- Radioactive pollution
- Jefferson County (Colorado) -- --Biography
- 92 IVE
- TD195.N85 I84 2012
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | 92 IVE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 034609 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mother's day, 1963 -- Drums and bunnies, 1969 -- Nuns and pirates, 1974 -- Operation Desert Glow, 1979 -- A raid and a runaway grand jury, 1989 -- Doom with a view, 1990 -- Fire, again, 1991-1996 -- What lies beneath, 1996-2011 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Rocky Flats timeline.
A narrative report by a woman who grew up near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility describes the secrets that dominated her childhood, the strange cancers that afflicted her neighbors, her brief employment at Rocky Flats, and the efforts of residents to achieve legal justice.
English
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