Format:
Ebook, Electronic Resources, Book
Title:
Full body burden [electronic resource] : growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats / Kristen Iversen.
Author:
Iversen, Kristen.
Call Number:
eBook
Web Site:
Web Link Available online.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Crown Publishers, 2012.
Description:
1 online resource (400 p.) : ill.
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.
Subjects:
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.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Other Title:
Growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats
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 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Rocky Flats timeline.
ISBN:
9780307955647 (electronic bk.)
0307955648 (electronic bk.)