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The Baneberry Disaster: A Generation of Atomic Fallout (2017)

Johns, Larry C. (Author)
Johns, Alan R. (Author)

University of Nevada Press

ISBN: 9781943859450

Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 224
Language: English

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Science and law Law and legislation Disasters; catastrophes Radiation sickness; radiation toxicology; Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) Nuclear and radioactive waste Nuclear testing 20th century, late Nevada (U.S.)

The Baneberry Disaster covers the calamitous December 1970 Baneberry underground nuclear test that pumped nearly 7 million curies of radiation into the atmosphere, caused the suspension of nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site for six months, and whose radioactive cloud exposed 86 test-site workers to radiation, two of whom died of leukemia less than four years later. The authors are attorneys from Las Vegas who spent 25 years pursuing a lawsuit for the victims at Baneberry. The story begins in 1971, just after the Baneberry test vented, and takes the reader through the years leading up to the trial, the 41-day trial in 1979, and the multiple appeals following the trial. It discusses the claims and lawsuits filed by others exposed to atomic testing, and the congressional investigations that led to the enactment of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act in 1990.

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Review Sarah Fox (October 2018) Review of "The Baneberry Disaster: A Generation of Atomic Fallout". Environmental History (pp. 905-906). unapi

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