LEADER 04979nam 2200637 450 001 9910797574003321 005 20230807221626.0 010 $a0-8135-6980-X 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813569802 035 $a(CKB)3710000000465751 035 $a(EBL)3565216 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001544907 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16135472 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001544907 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14033416 035 $a(PQKB)10880291 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3565216 035 $a(OCoLC)918984186 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse45530 035 $a(DE-B1597)526510 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813569802 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3565216 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11091010 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000465751 100 $a20151126h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe price of nuclear power $euranium communities and environmental justice /$fStephanie A. Malin 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey ;$aLondon, [England] :$cRutgers University Press,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 225 1 $aNature, Society, and Culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-6979-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Introduction: The Paradox of Uranium Production in a Neoliberal Era --$t2. Booms, Busts, and Bombs: Uranium's Economic and Environmental Justice History in the United States --$t3. Lethal Legacies: Left in the Dust in Monticello, Utah --$t4. The Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill: A Transnational Corporation Comes Home --$t5. "Just Hanging on by a Thread": Isolation, Poverty, and Social Dislocation --$t6. "Better Regs" in an Era of Deregulation: Neoliberalized Narratives of Regulatory Compliance --$t7. Conclusions and Solutions: Social Sustainability and Localized Energy Justice --$tAppendix: Research Methods and Data Collection --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aRising 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 uranium communities caught between the harmful legacy of previous mining booms and the potential promise of new economic development. Using this context, she examines how shifting notions of environmental justice inspire divergent views about nuclear power's sustainability and equally divisive forms of social activism. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in rural isolated towns such as Monticello, Utah, and Nucla and Naturita, Colorado, as well as in upscale communities like Telluride, Colorado, and incorporating interviews with community leaders, environmental activists, radiation regulators, and mining executives, Malin uncovers a fundamental paradox of the nuclear renaissance: the communities most hurt by uranium's legacy-such as high rates of cancers, respiratory ailments, and reproductive disorders-were actually quick to support industry renewal. She shows that many impoverished communities support mining not only because of the employment opportunities, but also out of a personal identification with uranium, a sense of patriotism, and new notions of environmentalism. But other communities, such as Telluride, have become sites of resistance, skeptical of industry and government promises of safe mining, fearing that regulatory enforcement won't be strong enough. Indeed, Malin shows that the nuclear renaissance has exacerbated social divisions across the Colorado Plateau, threatening social cohesion. Malin further illustrates ways in which renewed uranium production is not a socially sustainable form of energy development for rural communities, as it is utterly dependent on unstable global markets. The Price of Nuclear Power is an insightful portrait of the local impact of the nuclear renaissance and the social and environmental tensions inherent in the rebirth of uranium mining. 410 0$aNature, society, and culture. 606 $aNuclear industry$zUnited States 606 $aNuclear industry$xInformation services$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aNuclear power plants$xEnvironmental aspects$zUnited States 615 0$aNuclear industry 615 0$aNuclear industry$xInformation services$xGovernment policy 615 0$aNuclear power plants$xEnvironmental aspects 676 $a333.792/40973 700 $aMalin$b Stephanie A.$f1981-$01543347 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797574003321 996 $aThe price of nuclear power$93796737 997 $aUNINA