Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory (eBook)

Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest

Casey A. Huegel (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
328 Seiten
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-75256-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio towns restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyardIn 1984, a uranium leak at Ohios outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal.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. Fernalds 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, FRESHs 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.7.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Paul S. Sutter
• Vorwort: Paul S. Sutter
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b&w illus., 2 maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Cold War, Environmental Movement, Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Weapons, Feed Materials Production Center, Nuclear Arms Race, Environmental Remediation, Radioactive Waste, Uranium
• ISBN-10: 0-295-75256-4 / 0295752564
• ISBN-13: 978-0-295-75256-3 / 9780295752563