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Alec Cowan
Boom Town: A Uranium Story
For 50 years, Uravan, Colorado, was a uranium hub of America. Mining “yellowcake” was at the center of everyday life, where kids played on radioactive tailings and residents used mine waste for garden beds. Then residents started getting sick. Through interviews with historians, health experts, environmentalists, and uranium workers past and present, local documentarian Alec Cowan explores how uranium transformed the American West. As nuclear energy revives the controversial industry today, will the scars of uranium’s past influence the future? Or are some things best left underground?
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4.6 stars from 32 ratings
A good story about our past
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“I’m lived in Uravan when I turned 8. I’d like to say that I don’t glow in the dark! Uranium stood for me a nice childhood as my dad was a mining engineer in Uravan, Cortez, and finally Grand Junction. My dad x husband worked in the mill while he was going to college. He did die of cancer but he...”Read full review »
CordyDog via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/21/24
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“Finally a podcast on the history of the part of Colorado I grew up in”
Drivefastspeedturnsmeon via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/10/24
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