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RECORD NUMBER: 21 OF 52| Main Title | Full body burden : growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Iversen, Kristen. | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Crown Publishers, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 2012 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 753624502 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 9780307955630; 030795563X | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Nuclear weapons plants--Health aspects--Colorado ; Plutonium--Health aspects--Colorado ; Radioactive waste sites--Cleanup--Colorado ; Radioactive pollution--Colorado--Jefferson County ; Jefferson County (Colo)--Biography ; Environmental Exposure--adverse effects--Colorado--Autobiography ; Radioactive Pollutants--adverse effects--Colorado--Autobiography ; Radiation Injuries--Colorado--Autobiography ; Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced--Colorado--Autobiography ; Jefferson County (Colo) | |||||||||||
| Additional Subjects | Iversen, Kristen ; Rocky Flats Plant (US)--Environmental aspects ; Rocky Flats Plant (US)--History ; Rocky Flats Plant (US)--Health aspects ; Iversen, Kristen ; Rocky Flats Plant (US) | |||||||||||
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| Edition | 1st ed. | |||||||||||
| Collation | 400 p. : ill ; 25 cm. | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Contents Notes | "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." -- Publisher's description. 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. |