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By: Raye RingholzImprint: Utah State University Press
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Now expanded to include the story of nuclear testing and its consequences, Uranium Frenzy has become the classic account of the uranium rush that gripped the Colorado Plateau region in the 1950s. Instigated by the U.S. government's need for uranium to fuel its growing atomic weapons program, stimulated by Charlie Steen's lucrative Mi Vida strike in 1952, manned by rookie prospectors from all walks of life, and driven to a fever pitch by penny stock promotions, the boom created a colorful era in the Four Corners region and Salt Lake City (where the stock frenzy was centered) but ultimately went bust. The thrill of those exciting times and the good fortune of some of the miners were countered by the darker aspects of uranium and its uses. Miners were not well informed regarding the dangers of radioactive decay products. Neither the government nor anyone else expended much effort educating them or protecting their health and safety. The effects of exposure to radiation in poorly ventilated mines appeared over time.
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| Title of eBook: Uranium Frenzy | |
| Release Date: 04-01-2003 | |
| Publisher: Utah State University Press |
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Uranium Frenzy
Chapter One
THE SIREN CALL
Charlie didn't quite know how to tell M. L. There she was, her body all swelled up with a baby due in a couple of weeks. Their cramped rear apartment already teemed with three high-decibel kids under four years of age, crawling all over each other and on the few rickety pieces of furniture. There was barely enough money coming in to stock the fridge. Charlie felt guilty as hell but he knew he had to say that he was heading for the Colorado Plateau in a few days.
M. L. understood. It wasn't unexpected. He had read the article to her, and said it was the only way out. Life with Charlie Steen had never been dull.
It was the winter of 1949. Houston, Texas. Charlie was twenty-eight years old. He was working as a carpenter-adding a bathroom here, remodeling a kitchen there-a job he tolerated out of necessity.
His real love was geology. That was his training. He had a B.A. in geology from the Texas School of Mines and Metallurgy in El Paso. He had started a promising career as a geologist with the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. They even gave him a fifty dollar raise after his first six weeks. He spent two years with them doing field work, locating potential oil deposits. It was in the field that he was at his best.
But the job required paper work, as well. Reports. Analyses. Financial statements. Most of them nonsense as far as Charlie was concerned. Finally, he balked. He refused to submit a report he considered unnecessary. The boss thought otherwise. Charlie shot off his mouth and was fired for "rebellion against authority." To make matters worse, he was blacklisted
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