Description: Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory : Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest, Paperback by Huegel, Casey A.; Sutter, Paul S. (EDT); Sutter, Paul S. (FRW), ISBN 0295752556, ISBN-13 9780295752556, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town’s restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A. Huegel tells the story of the unlikely partnership of grassroots activists, regulators, union workers, and politicians that responded to the event with a new kind of environmental movement. The community group Fernald Residents for Environmental Safety and Health (FRESH) drew on the expertise of national organizations while maintaining its autonomy and focus on Fernald. Leveraging local patriotism and employment concerns, FRESH recruited blue-collar allies into an innovative program that fought for both local jobs and a healthier environment. Fernald’s transformation into a nature reserve with an on-site radioactive storage facility reflected the political compromises that left waste sites improved yet imperfect. At the same time, FRESH’s outsized influence transformed how the government scaled down the Cold War weapons complex, enforced health and safety standards, and reckoned with the immense environmental legacy of the nuclear arms race. A compelling history of environmental mobilization, Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory details the diverse goals and mixed successes of a groundbreaking activist movement.
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Book Title: Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory : Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Wa
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory : Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the MidWest
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication Year: 2024
Subject: Military / Nuclear Warfare, Environmental Conservation & Protection, United States / 20th Century
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Casey A. Huegel
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Nature, History
Item Width: 5.9 in
Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.
Format: Trade Paperback
