The price of nuclear power : uranium communities and environmental justice / Stephanie A. Malin.

Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. In The Price of Nuclear Power, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several ura...

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Main Author: Malin, Stephanie A., 1981- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Series:Nature, society, and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: the paradox of uranium production in a neoliberal era
  • Booms, busts, and bombs : uranium's economic and environmental justice history in the US
  • Lethal legacies in uranium communities : left in the dust in Monticello, Utah
  • A transnational corporation comes home : the Piñon Ridge uranium mill & sites of resistance and acceptance to renewed uranium production
  • "Just hangin' on by a thread" : spatial isolation, persistent poverty, and social dislocation in uranium communities
  • "Better regs" in an era of deregulation : neoliberalized narratives of uranium industry regulatory compliance
  • Conclusions and solutions : social sustainability and localized energy justice
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.