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From “Modern Midas Mineral” to “Satanic Substance”: Uranium, Unions, and the Atomic Age

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Uranium mining and export was a major flashpoint for political debate in 1970's Australia. However, there has been relatively little investigation into how uranium was understood and contested before this time. This paper draws on labour movement publications and other archival sources to reveal lesser‐known antecedents to the anti‐uranium movement in ...
Nicholas Herriot
wiley   +1 more source

The Victims of NIMBY [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
Not In My Back Yard, or NIMBY, in its various forms, has three principal types of targets. The first is waste disposal facilities, primarily landfills and incinerators. The second is low-income housing.
Gerrar, Michael B.
core   +2 more sources

Radioactive Waste Disposal [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health Reports (1896-1970), 1952
Clinton C. Powell, Howard L. Andrews
openaire   +3 more sources

Battle in the Clouds

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This narrative experiment brings together scenes from my family histories in western Pennsylvania coal country, alongside ongoing visits to learn about rising health issues in the region today. Increasing numbers of residents express concerns about chronic problems such as young cancers, and many people worry about potential exposures coming ...
Amy Moran‐Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Elemental Geochemistry on Paleoenvironment Reconstruction: Proxies on Miocene-Pliocene of Marine to Fluvial Sediment in Serpong, Banten, Indonesia

open access: yesGeosciences
Research of the depositional environment using geological mapping, petrography, gamma-ray (GR) log, palynology, and foraminifera fossils of the Bojongmanik Formation has led to the formation of several different conclusions about the transition to the ...
Heri Syaeful   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Survivability and proliferation of microorganisms in bentonite with implication to radioactive waste geological disposal: strong effect of temperature and negligible effect of pressure. [PDF]

open access: yesWorld J Microbiol Biotechnol, 2023
Bartak D   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An inventory of subglacial overdeepenings in southern Germany and Austria

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
We present an inventory and morphometric characterization of >100 individual overdeepened basins in southern Germany and Austria compiled from heterogeneous sources. Arrangement and dimensions of overdeepenings are compared to those of their western Alpine counterparts, to catchment topographies and bedrock lithologies, and to modelled ice‐flow ...
Lukas Gegg   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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