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Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest [Hardback]

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Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town’s restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard

In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A. Huegel tells the story of the unlikely partnership of grassroots activists, regulators, union workers, and politicians that responded to the event with a new kind of environmental movement.

The community group Fernald Residents for Environmental Safety and Health (FRESH) drew on the expertise of national organizations while maintaining its autonomy and focus on Fernald. Leveraging local patriotism and employment concerns, FRESH recruited blue-collar allies into an innovative program that fought for both local jobs and a healthier environment. Fernald’s transformation into a nature reserve with an on-site radioactive storage facility reflected the political compromises that left waste sites improved yet imperfect. At the same time, FRESH’s outsized influence transformed how the government scaled down the Cold War weapons complex, enforced health and safety standards, and reckoned with the immense environmental legacy of the nuclear arms race.

A compelling history of environmental mobilization, Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory details the diverse goals and mixed successes of a groundbreaking activist movement.

Recenzijas

"This is an ideal book for both specialists and lay readers curious about the interplay between local, state, and federal politics regarding nuclear weapons and human health. . . . Huegel's history suggests that at least some of today's public mistrust of the federal government can be traced to these battles over nuclear weapons production and environmental safety. Yet this well-written history is overall, and refreshingly, one of success. A timely book indeed."

(Technology and Culture) "Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory is an innovative work that connects local antinuclear activism with global nuclear dilemmas. If the book were to be mapped, its narrative path would branch in multiple directions and dimensions, from the literal grassroots around the Fernald plant to the halls of Congress in Washington, from highly readable descriptions of the technical methods of uranium production to the complicated remediation procedures undertaken after Fernald's closure. Huegel further explains the byzantine structure of DOE regulations as skillfully as he does the emotional journey of individual activists."

(H-Net Reviews) "The book reads like an adventure novel . . . demonstrat[ ing] that a scholar can both observe the highest scholarly standards of citation and documentation and captivate the reader's attention. Huegel integrates data from scholarly sources, government documents, archives, and interviews. The work is a case study, yet the findings regarding strategies and alliance-building are broadly relevant. The conclusions are nuanced. The book is a classic."

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Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio towns restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard
Casey A. Huegel is an adjunct professor of environmental studies at the University of Cincinnati and a public historian with the National Park Service.