On July 16, 1979 the United Nuclear Corporation’s Church Rock uranium mill disposal pond ruptured through its dam and contaminated the Puerco River in New Mexico and parts of Navajo Country.
Schramm compares the environmental impacts of uranium mining in East and West Germany.
Liza Piper talks about the industrialization of Canada’s northwest subarctic region between 1920 and 1960.
Warm Sands gives an institutional analysis of how the debates over legal and political authority, scientific expertise, and public health and safety both delayed and shaped the formation of mill tailings policy in the United States.
An in-depth examination of how uranium, the natural resource on which the nuclear power industry depends, is extracted.
The reactor was a model for all nuclear plants built after the Second World War.
This film examines the processes and politics involved in mining uranium at sites such as the Olympic Dam in Australia and transporting it to Europe in order to generate nuclear power.
