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

Iversen, Kristen. (Author). Iversen, Kristen. (Added Author).

Summary:

A haunting work of narrative nonfiction about a young woman growing up in a small Colorado town close to a secret nuclear weapons plant. It's the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and tainted with invisible yet deadly plutonium.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307955630
  • Physical Description: 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2012]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Target Audience Note:
1030L Lexile.
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.

Available copies

  • 6 of 6 copies available at Sage Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Columbia Gorge Community College. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Columbia Gorge Community College Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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Columbia Gorge Community College Library Environmental Science Iver 2012 (Text) 39705000013812 Main Collection Available -

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