| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations/Maps; Legend of Map Symbols; List of Acronyms; Preface; Acknowledgments; ONE: Mapping the Nuclear Landscape; 1. Introduction; Mapping the Invisible Nuclear Landscape; Interlocking Desires: Science, Industry, and the Military; 2. Tragedy at the Center of the Universe; The Uranium Story; Science as a Mechanism of Exclusion; The Global Picture; 3. Science Cities in the Desert; Outdoor Laboratories and Theaters of War; Zones of Concentration on the Nuclear Landscape; Zone One; Zone Two |
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4. Nuclear WastelandThe Nuclear Legacy; Confusion in the Field: Problems with the Nuclear Industry and Its Regulation; Nuclear Waste and Indigenous Communities; Deep-Geologic Repositories: The Yucca Mountain Project and WIPP; Monitored Retrievable Storage Sites; Low-Level Nuclear Waste: Ward Valley and the Mojave's Indigenous Peoples; The Nuclear Waste Crisis in Context; TWO: Power, Representation, and Cultural Politics at Yucca Mountain; 5. The View from Yucca Mountain; Perspectives and Boundaries; Perceptions of Nature and Their Material Consequences; Protest at the Margins |
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6. Cultural PoliticsIndian Perspectives on Yucca Mountain Cultural Resource Studies; Tribal Representation in Cultural Studies; Removal of Artifacts, Removal of Presence; Different Ways of Knowing; 7. The Country of Lost Borders; A Historical Sketch; 8. Aboriginal Homeland; The Cultural Politics of Difference; Indian Geography and Mythopoetic Knowledge; Inter subjectivity and Ecological Ethos; (Re)Assembling Knowledge; 9. The Experimental Landscape; Intellectual Precursors to the Experiment at Yucca Mountain: Ecology, Energy, and Radiation |
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Managing the System: The Yucca Mountain Project and the Technology of Knowing10. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The Tainted Desert documents the controversies surrounding the Yucca Mountain project - America's first large-scale national high-level nuclear waste site, built at a cost of billions of taxpayer dollars and located in Nevada less than 100 miles from Las Vegas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-329) and index |
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Indians of North America -- Nevada.
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Nuclear weapons -- Nevada -- Testing.
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Radioactive waste disposal -- Environmental aspects -- Nevada
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Indians of North America -- West (U.S.)
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Nuclear weapons -- West (U.S.) -- Testing
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Radioactive waste disposal -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.)
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Radioactive wastes.
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Indians of North America.
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Hydrogen bomb.
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Radioactive Waste
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Indians, North American
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Nuclear Weapons
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Environmental Pollution -- ethics
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Waste Management -- ethics
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United States Government Agencies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Indians of North America
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Nuclear weapons -- Testing
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Radioactive waste disposal -- Environmental aspects
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Nevada |
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Nevada
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West United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
97034594 |
| ISBN |
9781134954261 |
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1134954263 |
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