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The Price of Nuclear Power - Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice (Paperback)
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The Price of Nuclear Power - Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice (Paperback)
Series: Nature, Society, and Culture
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Rising 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.
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