Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West

Michael Amundson presents a detailed analysis of the four mining communities at the hub of the twentieth-century uranium booms: Moab, Utah; Grants, New Mexico; Uravan, Colorado; and Jeffrey City, Wyoming. He follows the ups and downs of these "Yellowcake Towns" from uranium's origins as the crucial element in atomic bombs and the 1950s boom to its use in nuclear power plants, the Three Mile Island accident, and the 1980s bust. Yellowcake Towns provides a look at the supply side of the Atomic Age and serves as an important contribution to the growing bibliography of atomic history.

Author: Michael a. Amundson
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 02/25/2004
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.08w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9780870817656
ISBN10: 0870817655
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General
- History | Social History

About the Author
Michael A. Amundson is a professor of history at Northern Arizona University, the author of Yellowcake Towns, and the co-editor of Atomic Culture.