NDLI: From Calamity Mesa to Boyertown, Pennsylvania: Risk, Radon, and Regulation in Cold War America

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Bales, E.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Univ. of California, Berkeley (Bales, E.)
Abstract	In the boom uranium mining industry in the American Southwest during the postwar 1940s and 1950s, the first casualty was occupational safety, and that lapse engendered a harsh legacy: roughly fifty percent of the miners developed lung cancer over the next ten to twenty years, apparently due to their excessive exposure to the decay products of radon gas emitted by the uranium ore. Several decades later, in the mid-1980s, radon returned to the realm of public health and public policy when high levels of radon gas found in private homes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey set off an indoor radon scare and compelled the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set standards for residential environments. In this paper, these two related crises about radon exposure are employed as a heuristic for extracting and examining the multiplicity of social, economic, political, and cultural concerns that are mobilized around a scientifically-informed regulatory decision.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	645771
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424405862
DOI	10.1109/ISTAS.2007.4362203
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-06-01
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Mining industry Occupational safety Lungs Cancer Ores Public healthcare Public policy Protection Environmental economics Cultural differences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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