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Uranium: Is it a country?
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.
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YELLOW CAKE: Die Lüge von der sauberen Energie [YELLOW CAKE: The Dirt Behind Uranium]
An in-depth examination of how uranium, the natural resource on which the nuclear power industry depends, is extracted.
Multimedia | book profile
Warm Sands: Uranium Mill Tailings Policy in the Atomic West
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.
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Episode 12: "Industrialization in Subarctic Environments"
Liza Piper talks about the industrialization of Canada’s northwest subarctic region between 1920 and 1960.
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Uranium Mining and the Environment in East and West Germany
Schramm compares the environmental impacts of uranium mining in East and West Germany.