Full body burden: growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats

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"Full Body Burden is Kristen Iversen's story of growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets - both family secrets and government secrets. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what they made at Rocky Flats - best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some distrubing realities. As this memoir unfolds, it reveals itself as a brilliant work of investigative journalism - a shocking account of the government's sustained attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic and radioactive waste released by Rock Flats, and of local residents' vain attempts to seek justice in court. Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book promises to have a very long half-life."
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9780307955654
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Jefferson County (Colo.) -- Personal narrative
Local Authors
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Nuclear weapons plants -- Health aspects -- Colorado
Personal narratives
Plutonium -- Health aspects -- Colorado
Radioactive pollution -- Colorado -- Jefferson County
Radioactive waste sites -- Cleanup -- Colorado
Rocky Flats Plant (U.S.) -- Environmental aspects
Rocky Flats Plant (U.S.) -- Health aspects
Rocky Flats Plant (U.S.) -- History
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Cleanup
Environmental aspects
Health aspects
History
Iversen, Kristen
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Nuclear weapons plants
Plutonium
Radioactive pollution
Radioactive waste sites
Sociology

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