Colorado Experience: Uranium Mania
Colorado Experience: Uranium Mania
America’s explosive successes in peace and war were fueled by the radioactive wealth from the Colorado Plateau. The mineral carnotite was a “Pandora’s rock” of scientific, medical, industrial and military power for 20th Century America with its unleashed resources of radium, vanadium and uranium. Even though the energetic and frenetic mining and refining of uranium ore in Western Colorado has mostly ceased, its remaining trace elements of memory and controversy still radiate from Uravan and Grand Junction throughout the state, the nation and the world.
Chernobyl and Fukushima……ugh
These people seem very proud to be a part of the pollution and cancers of this planet….
Yeah, that’s where I want to have a picnic….
Yellow cake.
All I think of is the Fallout games. lol
I can watch this stuff all day!
Oh, goody! More Colorado history for me!
Stalin had spies within the project.
Very recommendable! The naive optimism of the 1950s became tragic
I live on the Western Slope and have driven through there numerous times. Thank you for this episode.
I lived in Uravan from 1977 until 1983, and worked in the instrument shop in the mill. It was the greatest place I’ve ever lived.