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Full body burden : growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats / Kristen Iversen.
- Title
- Full body burden : growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats / Kristen Iversen.
- Author
- Iversen, Kristen
- Publication
- New York : Crown Publishers, c2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | TD195.N85 I84 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 400 p. : ill; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Alternative Title
- Growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats
- Subject
- Iversen, Kristen
- Iversen, Kristen
- Rocky Flats Plant (U.S.)
- Rocky Flats Plant (U.S.) > Environmental aspects
- Rocky Flats Plant (U.S.) > History
- Rocky Flats Plant (U.S.) > Health aspects
- Radioactive Pollutants > adverse effects
- Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced
- Radiation Injuries
- Environmental Exposure > adverse effects
- Nuclear weapons plants > Health aspects > Colorado
- Plutonium > Health aspects > Colorado
- Radioactive waste sites > Cleanup > Colorado
- Radioactive pollution > Colorado > Jefferson County
- Jefferson County (Colo.)
- Colorado
- Jefferson County (Colo.) > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-387) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780307955630
- 030795563X
- LCCN
- ^^2011045902
- OCLC
- 753624502
- SCSB-10876808
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library