The Uranium Widows [ABSTRACT]

Letter from Colorado

The Uranium Widows [ABSTRACT] 

LETTER FROM COLORADO about uranium mining. There are many uranium widows in southwestern Colorado. The local history of uranium is long and often troubled, and the economy has been devastated since the Three Mile Island accident, in 1979, when Americans turned against nuclear power. Of the old-time Colorado miners…

by Peter Hessler

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