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Cram, Shannon, 1980- author.
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Radioactive waste sites -- Cleanup -- Washington (State)
Hanford Site (Wash.)
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Unmaking the bomb : ...
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Unmaking the bomb : environmental cleanup and the politics of impossibility / Shannon Cram.
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Cram, Shannon, 1980- author.
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Subjects
Radioactive waste sites -- Cleanup -- Washington (State)
Hanford Site (Wash.)
ISBN:
9780520395114 hardcover
0520395115 hardcover
9780520395121 paperback
0520395123 paperback
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Critical environments (Oakland, Calif.) ; 14.
Description:
214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Introduction : on telling impossible stories -- Tender -- Anatomy of a phantom -- Rational mutants -- Body burden -- Trespassing -- Conclusion : here, in the plutonium.
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"Unmaking the Bomb investigates the politics of waste, exposure, and cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washington State. Once the heart of American plutonium production, Hanford is now engaged in the nation's largest environmental remediation effort, managing toxic materials that will long outlast their regulatory containers. This book blends ethnographic research with personal narrative to examine cleanup's administrative frames and the stories that exceed them. It describes how the body-at-risk became a waste management tool, and how reckoning with contamination informs the very definitions of health and hazard in the United States"--
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