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Author Iversen, Kristen.

Title Full body burden : growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats / Kristen Iversen.

Imprint New York : Crown Publishers, c2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  363.179909 Iv3f 2012    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 400 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Study Program AR RL 7.0 21.0 PHS
Subject Iversen, Kristen.
Rocky Flats 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 -- Health aspects -- Colorado.
Radioactive waste sites -- Cleanup -- Colorado.
Radioactive pollution -- Colorado -- Jefferson County.
Jefferson County (Colo.) -- Biography.
Added Title Growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats
ISBN 9780307955630
030795563X

 
    
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